There were a number of people striving for a breath of fresh air and sitting on the deck, most of them cross-legged in a manner that few Europeans could achieve.
Others were playing games of cards, throwing dice or nursing children and there were a great number of them.
But there was no sign of the man she wanted to see and she stood there for a long time wondering how she could communicate with him and thinking it very foolish that, while he had asked for her name, she had not asked him for his.
‘Perhaps I shall see him tomorrow,’ she mused.
But she had the feeling that, if he did not want her to see him, it would be impossible for her to catch sight of him.
She worked in her new cabin until dinnertime and then changed into an evening gown that had belonged to her mother and which sh
