“What are you going to do, Mother?” asked Sue sleepily.
“We must get ready for whatever is going to happen,” was the answer.
Though Mrs. Brown did not tell her little girl so, she thought that something had happened to the ship and that perhaps the passengers and crew might have to get into the lifeboats and row away.
Then Mrs. Brown heard her husband and Bunny moving about in their stateroom across the corridor, and she heard Bunny ask:
“What’s the matter, Daddy?”
“I guess we bumped into a whale,” said Mr. Brown, not because he really believed this but in order not to frighten his little boy.
And it proved to be the best answer that could have been made, for Bunny laughed and said:
“Ho! ho! I guess if our ship hit a whale it would make his head ache, wouldn’t it?”
“I think it would,” replied Mr. Brown.
By this time he, also, had on a dressing gown and slippers and had opened his stateroom door. At the same time Mrs. Brown opened hers.