CHAPTER 10He passed with the others at a jogtrot and left her speechless. The quartermaster was discussing with respectful fervour the inequalities of life and did not notice her agitation.
"Yes, miss, that's what it is. Some of us work in the engine room below and some of us sleep on the upper deck. But them as works in the engine room below have pleasures which the upper deck people know nothing about.
There's many a man in the stokehole, miss," he said impressively, "who's as much of a gentleman as the best first class passenger that ever sailed. Think of 'em, miss, human beings, like you and me, loving…“
"Oh don't," said the girl, putting out her hand.
"I'm sorry, miss," said the quartermaster in surprise, and a little flattered that his eloquence had produced so remarkable a respo
