"Then you are one of the Titania's party."
"Am I?" rejoined the lad.
The stranger smiled.
"Of course you are," he said. "And you are going farther than the Mediterranean, I believe."
"We were," declared Dick mendaciously, for he considered himself quite justified in bluffing the fellow. "We were, but the long cruise has been abandoned. Don't know why."
"You'll be quite a traveller. Have you journeyed on the Continent before?"
Dick shook his head.
"No? Then I'll have to give an eye to you," continued Mr. Wilson. "Rather a long journey without having anyone to talk to."
"Don't think I'd take it on if I were you, Mr. Wilson," said Dick in a well-simulated, confidential tone. "You see, I'm let out before I ought to be. I only came out of the sanny yesterday."
"The sanny?" queried Mr. Wilson, in perplexity.