"I suppose that it is a very interesting study?"
"Very interesting indeed."
"If it is not an impertinent question, may I ask whether it has been your own experience that such a study improves the moral nature of a man?"
"Quite the reverse," said "Uncle Tom."
"You are frank."
"What is life unless you are?" asked "Uncle Tom."
The captain laughed; but Bertie was in agony The train began to slow.
"I think this is Southampton," said the thin young man.
And it was.