Professor Baffin was silent for a moment. Then he said,—
“Tilly, do you mean to say you never heard of Baron Bors?”
“Never.”
“And that you were never engaged to Sir Dinadan?”
“Pa, how absurd! Who are these people?”
“Were you not upon the island with me, at the castle?”
“How could we have gone upon an island, pa, when we were taken from the raft by the ship?”
“Tilly, my child, when I get perfectly well I shall have to tell you of the most extraordinary series of circumstances that has come under my observation during the whole course of my existence!”
Then Professor Baffin closed his eyes and fell into a doze, and Miss Baffin went up to tell the surgeon of the ship Undine, from Philadelphia to Glasgow, that her father seemed to be getting better.