“Oh, as to that, I could easily have walked round the deck-house to the other side of the ship.”
“If the discourtesy wouldn’t have been too obvious—of course!” But I didn’t press the point. There were other admissions to which I had an unchivalrous craving to bring her if I could; and so I went on, artfully, “It was clever of you to find my state-room on Tuesday—all on the spur of the moment like that.”
She contented herself with murmuring, “Yes, wasn’t it?”
“And your own cabin is on another deck.”
“I’m on this deck.”
“So that you hadn’t even seen me going in and out.”
“I’m a nurse—in a way. Nurses have to know more than other passengers or they’d be no good on board ship.”
“And do you know every one’s cabin?”
“I know every one’s cabin to whom I can be useful.”
“Is that many?”