We are
always wide-awake here. My quarters are farther aft. I think I can
find a chair for you if you care to sit down while I have my tea."
The captain led the way to a spacious cabin behind the chart-house.
"I hope you don't mind the chairs being secured to the deck," he said,
taking off his hat. "So far above sea line, you know, everything that
is loose comes to grief when the ship rolls."
"Then what becomes of your photographs?" demanded Isobel, promptly, her
quick eyes having discovered the pictures of two ladies in silver
frames on a writing-table.
"I take care to put them away. There is always plenty of warning. No
ordinary sea can trouble a big hulk like the _Kansas_."
"Is that your mother, the dear old lady in the lace cap?"
"Yes, and the other is my sister."
"Oh, really! Is she married?"
"No. Like me, she is wedded to her profession."
"Will you think it rude if I ask what that is?"
"She is a hospital nurse; the matron, indeed, of a public institution
in the suburbs of London."
"How wonderful! I do admire hospital nurses so much. They are so
clever and self-sacrificing, and they always have a smile on their
sweet faces.
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