I question if there was anything very much better aboard the _Water Nymph_.

By the way, Lady Earlscourt invited me to join the yachting party.

She did not mention it to her husband, however.

She thought that there should be a chaplain aboard.

Now, considering that Lord Earlscourt had told me the previous day that he was compelled to take to the sea solely on account of the way people were worrying him about me, I think that I did the right thing when I told her that I should be compelled to stay at home until the appearance of a certain paper of mine in the _Zeit Geist Review_." "I'm sure that you did the right thing when you stayed at home." "And in writing the paper in the _Zeit Geist_?
You have read it ?" "Oh, yes! I have read it." "You don't like it ?" "How could I like it?
You have known me now for sometime.