I was just going to ask you if you would call the ladies, or whether you will take the cafe au lait and eggs to their door." "I will go and ask them." He went and knocked at the cabin door.
"Patsey, cafe au lait will be ready in twenty minutes.

Will you and Madame Flambard take it in your cabin, or come into the saloon ?" "I am just dressed, and shall be up on deck with Louis in two or three minutes.

Madame Flambard will not get up.

It is her first voyage, and she will not take anything to eat." He was just going to knock at the merchant's door, when there was a shout from within: "I have heard what you are saying, and shall be dressed in ten minutes." Patsey was soon on deck.
"This is splendid, Leigh! And now that we have got away so wonderfully, I feel more hopeful than I have done before that Jean, also, will have made his escape.
"Well, Louis, what do you think of this?
You had better keep hold of your uncle's hand, as well as mine, or you may get a nasty tumble." "Nasty, bad ship, mama ?" "It is because the wind is blowing hard, and the sea is rough.

We had smooth water on our last voyage, you know." "Louis not like him," he said positively; "very bad ship." "You will be all right, if you keep hold of your uncle's hand.