until we get a storm."

"I do hope one comes!"

"Alice DeVere!"

"Well, I mean just a _little_ one, with waves like little hills, instead
mountains."

The only members of the film company who did not present themselves at
the breakfast table were Miss Pennington and Miss Dixon.

They breakfasted in their staterooms, but it was noticed that the trays
came out about as well filled as they went in, from which it might be
gathered that they were not altogether free from the toll the sea exacts
from most travelers.

"My, how charming you look!" observed Paul to Alice as he joined her on
deck, and arranged her steamer chair out of the wind. She had on a new
jacket, and a little toque, the brown fur of which matched her eyes, and
brought out, in contrast, the damask of her cheeks.

"Thank you," she laughed in retort. "I might say the same of you. That's
a good-looking coat."

"A little different from the usual, yes. The man said it was imported--"

"Just as if that made it any better."

"It doesn't--only different. Where did you get that rug? It's an odd