Angeline Willetts! Whom was she with ?" "A Madame Duclos, a French lady.

I once spoke to _her_." "You did?
And what did you say ?" "I bade her good morning as we were passing on the main-deck stairs.

But she did not answer, and I was not guilty of the impertinence again." "I see.

Such, then, was the situation up to this morning.

But since?
How did it happen that a young girl, six hours after landing in this country, should come to a place like this without a chaperon ?" "I don't know what brought her here; I can only tell you why I came.