[Chance by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link bookChance CHAPTER THREE--DEVOTED SERVANTS--AND THE LIGHT OF A FLARE 39/89
That had been excellent.
For she was a dependable woman. Powell did not detect any particular excellence in what seemed a spying employment.
But in his simplicity he said that he should have thought Mrs.Anthony would have been glad anyhow to have another woman on board. He was thinking of the white-faced girlish personality which it seemed to him ought to have been cared for.
The innocent young man always looked upon the girl as immature; something of a child yet. "She! glad! Why it was she who had her fired out.
She didn't want anybody around the cabin.
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