C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

“ CHAPTER II. You know, when you're on shipboard, how new people appear from day to day, long after you've seen every one on the passenger list! It is as if they had been dropped on deck from stealthy aëroplanes in the dark watches of the night.
And that was the way in which this girl appeared, this girl who worked the lightning change in Ralston Murray. It didn't seem possible that she could have come on board the ship nearly two days ago, and we not have heard of her, for she was the prettiest person I'd ever seen in my life. ”

“ Brandreth's chair appeared, but when she would blushingly have given up her place, he refused to take it.
“I've only come to say,” he explained, “that one place on deck is the same to me as any other place. So why shouldn't I have your chair, wherever it is, and you keep mine? It's very nice for the major to have found a friend, and it will do him a lot of good. I'm a doctor, and if I were his physician, such society would be just what I would prescribe for him.” ”

“ I didn't move from my deck chair till luncheon time, but I had to go then, with Jim, and we left Mrs. Brandreth ordering her lunch from the deck steward. She would have it with Major Murray, who, poor fellow, was allowed no other food than milk.
When we came back on deck, it was to walk. We had been below for an hour or more, but the girl and the man were still together. As Jim and I passed and repassed those chairs, I could throw a quick glance in their direction without being observed. Mrs. Brandreth's odd nervousness and shy distress seemed to have gone. ”