"You ought to be a good sailor, you know."
She said nothing to that: she was looking down, dreading what was coming.
"I am sure you must be a good sailor. I have heard of many of your boating adventures. Weren't you rather fond, some years ago, of going out at night with the Lundy pilots?"
"I have never gone a long voyage in a large vessel," Wenna said rather faintly.
"But if there was any reasonable object to be gained an ordinary sea-voyage would not frighten you?"
"Perhaps not."
"And they have really very good steamers going to the West Indies."
"Oh, indeed!"
"First rate! You get a most comfortable cabin."
"I thought you rather—in your description of it—in your first letter—"