Not that to-day has been any great improvement on yesterday and the day before. To begin with, it put me quite out of temper, at Traxelby station, to see how Susan was far too nasty to Gibson, and how Gibson was far too nice to Susan. And Gibson couldn’t possibly have been clumsier in his attempt to give me his address on the sly. It was a miracle that Susan didn’t see. I kept Susan beside me all the way to Newhaven, and also on the boat. It was a turbine steamer, and the sea was smooth, and I ought to have enjoyed the crossing immensely. But I didn’t. Of course, the reason was Susan. We hadn’t fairly lost sight of that blinding, towering white cliff above Seaford before Susan said tragically in my ear: "Oh, Miss, I have such a dreadful feeling!" Never before have I been cruel to the sea-sick. But it was altogether too much that Susan, who has always been the best sailor in the world, should begin to work up a squeamishness on a turbine, with the sun shining and the sea as calm as a pond, and no one ill, not even the trippers in ready-made yachting-suits. I felt she was doing it just to be important, and interesting, and difficult. "Nonsense, Susan!" I said, quite roughly: "it’s perfectly ridiculous. Don’t think about it, and you’ll be all right." "I don’t mean that I’m took bad, Miss," said Susan. And she looked aggrieved. Probably it was my fancy; but, in her injured dignity, there seemed to be a blend of Susan Briggs with the future Lady Ruddington. "What do you mean, then?" I asked grudgingly. She did not answer at once. When she did, she said mysteriously: "I’ve got the feeling, Miss, that ... that it’s him!" "Him?" "Yes, Miss. He’s kept looking at me ever since we landed on the ship." Susan shot a swift glance to her right, and then, with a modest blush, resumed her scrutiny of the pattern on the rug across her knees. I affected to take an interest in a fishing-smack which was fast dropping astern of us; and, in this way, I was able to examine the part of the boat whither Susan’s glance had winged its coy flight. No doubt, ever so many people have stayed in town for the Harvard and Cambridge Boat-race. Anyhow, there weren’t many crossing this morning. We were sitting abaft the funnel, and there was hardly anybody between our two chairs and the gate leading to the second-class.