He handed her a cheque for thirty-one pounds, ten shillings, and read the agreement through to her. Hastily acquainting him with the treasures he had unexpectedly obtained, Thames returned to the room to apprize Winifred of his good fortune. She was posing before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. Sometimes at sea a skipper will order his men to trim, batten down the hatches, and clear the deck of all litter. “But, dear, think! He is your father. Go on. I’ll have to wait here, of course, which means you, Hilary—’ ‘Will have to do tomorrow’s patrol. She had need of a devoted cavalier and Jack had proved eminently valuable. Let us be gone.
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