"Who came out with you—any one of prominence?"
"No; mainly shop-keepers and the like—a most uninteresting lot."
"You must have had a pleasant ten weeks!" she laughed.
"I tried to make the best of it. Some amusement is to be got of a row of graven images, if one try hard enough; and, even a shop-keeper beats a graven image."
"Tell me of your shipwreck," said she.
"I have forgotten," he said; "forgotten everything but the salt water—I swallowed so much, I can taste it still."
"It shall be the business of Annapolis to obliterate the taste."
"It is obliterated, now," he said, bending down. "Henceforth, Annapolis follows after London, with nothing whatever between—and you are Annapolis."
"Oh, no! I am not. I have nothing to do with Annapolis, other than as a guest."
"That should make you kind to the stranger."