“You can play, sing, speak three or four languages?”

“By no means.”

“Still I think you are clever” (a pause and a yawn). “Shall you be seasick?”

“Shall you?”

“Oh, immensely! as soon as ever we get in sight of the sea: I begin, indeed, to feel it already. I shall go below; and won’t I order about that fat odious stewardess! Heureusement je sais faire aller mon monde. ”

Down she went.