“Ah! She is well grown for that age. I need not ask if she has good health. She looks so well.”
“Oh, yes, madam. Thank Heaven!”
“This is the first time you have been on deck, I think?”
“Yes, madam.”
“Suffered from seasickness, I fear.”
“Yes, madam, until this morning.”
“Ah! very sad to have missed all this beautiful voyage. An exceptionally fine voyage. I have crossed many times, but have never experienced so fine a voyage.”
Jennie did not reply.
“But, then, seasickness is a great benefit to some constitutions. I hope that it will have been so in your case.”
Still Jennie did not answer, except by a bow.