but as we are certain it cannot be so, and at the same time convinced that when Charles gets to town he will be in no hurry to leave it again, we have determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel.

I can accompany him only in my thoughts. Now I hear the cable screech, and - something flutters and swishes like clothes drying on a line - wet handkerchieves, perhaps and I hear how it snuffles and sobs, like people crying perhaps the small waves lapping against the nets, or is it the girls on the shore, the abandoned, the comfortless?