Although we had not advertised ourselves on board, invitations from the Captain and various other passengers were already waiting for us when we arrived back in our upper deck suite. (It was not to be helped. Upon entering our cabin, our first order of business had not been a quick look at the passenger list laid out on the table alongside the dining reservation card and the first batch of invitations, but to flop onto the couches and send for food. Charley had in fact tossed the passenger list into the wastepaper bin without a glance. Tilly and I had fished it out again to see if there was anyone on the first class passengers list that we might be particularly anxious to avoid and to confirm that our names were not on there, thus grouping ourselves with the celebrities and recluses who as
