She didn't finish the sentence.
“Perhaps what?”
“Oh, nothin', nothin'. How many shirts did you bring with you? is this all?”
She sang no more, probably because she saw that the “fog-horn” annoyed me, but her manner was just as strange and her nervous energy as pronounced. I began to doubt if my surmise, that her excitement and exaltation were due to the anticipation of an early return to Bayport, was a correct one. I began to thing there must be some other course and to speculate concerning it. And I, too, grew a bit excited.
“Hephzy,” I said, suddenly, “where did you go when you went out this morning? What sort of 'errands' were those of yours?”
She was folding my ties, her back toward me, and she answered without turning.
“Oh, I had some odds and ends of things to do,” she said. “This plaid necktie of yours is gettin' pretty shabby, Hosy. I guess you can't wear it again. There! I mustn't stop to talk. I've got my own things to pack.”
She hurried to her own room and I asked no more questions just then. But I was more suspicious than ever. I remembered a question of hers the previous evening and I believed.... But, if she had gone to the Continental and seen Herbert Bayliss, what could he have told her to make her happy?
We took the train for Calais and crossed the Channel to Dover. This time the eccentric strip of water was as calm as a pond at sunset. No jumpy, white-capped billows, no flying spray, no seasick passengers. Tarpaulins were a drag on the market.
“I wouldn't believe,” declared Hephzy, “that this lookin'-glass was the same as that churned-up tub of suds we slopped through before. It doesn't trickle down one's neck now, does it, Hosy. A 'nahsty' cross-in' comin' and a smooth one comin' back. I wonder if that's a sign.”