The girl shook her head and laughed.
“Not at all. It is you who are mistaken. Miss Lawrence has been remiss if she has not told you of the arrangement we have made.”
“Arrangement? What arrangement have you made? What are you doing in this cabin?”
“It is very simple. We have made an exchange, Miss Lawrence and I; '7b have given her the berth in which I have been sleeping, though it really is a better one than this, and she has given me hers instead.”
Even then I did not grasp her meaning. It had not occurred to me as even possible that such a blow could fall upon me. I knew so little about a ship that I had supposed that arrangements made before she started had to remain unchanged until the voyage was done.
“This cabin is not only Miss Lawrence’s, it is also mine; she has no right to l
