He realized that the situation was getting awkward, and that consciousness added to the confusion of his ideas.

But if his companion shared his embarrassment, neither her face nor her manner betrayed it as at last she said, turning, and looking frankly at him: "You seem very little changed.

Tell me about yourself.

Tell me something of your life in the last six years." During the rest of the voyage they were together for a part of every day, sometimes with the company of Mrs.William Ruggles, but more often without it, as her husband claimed much of her attention and rarely came on deck; and John, from time to time, gave his companion pretty much the whole history of his later career.

But with regard to her own life, and, as he noticed, especially the two years since the death of her brother-in-law, she was distinctly reticent.