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A few minutes later I walked out of that room with Campbell and I have a hazy recollection of leaving Hephzy seated in the rocker and of hearing her voice, as the door closed, repeating over and over: "The 'Plutonia'! My soul and body! The 'Plutonia'! Me ME on the 'Plutonia'!" What I said and did afterwards doesn't make much difference.
Sure you have money enough to carry you across comfortably?" "Yes, and more than enough, even on the 'Plutonia." "Well, all right, then. When you reach London go to our English branch you have the address, Camford Street, just off the Strand and whatever help you may need they'll give you. I've cabled them instructions. Think you can get down to the ship all right?" I laughed.
These "Plutonia" or "Charonia" are, in fact, places where mephitic vapours exist, like the Grotto del Cane and other spots in the neighbourhood of Naples and Pozzuoli.
Shakingly, Matilda held out a sheet of paper. Shakingly, but without turning to face her visitors, Mrs. De Peyster took it. There was enough light to see that the letter was written on heavy paper embossed at the top with a flag and "S.S. Plutonia," and was dated the evening she had supposedly gone on board. The note read:
"I know I did," he replied, "but that is immaterial. You are not concerned with the 'Princess Eulalie. Your passages are booked on the 'Plutonia' and she doesn't leave her dock until one o'clock to-morrow morning. We will meet here for lunch at twelve-thirty. Come, Kent." I didn't attempt an answer. I am not exactly sure what I did.
Jack and that Mary person were now in sweet and undisturbed possession of her house; Olivetta, on board the Plutonia, was this minute reposing at ease amid the luxuries of her cabin de luxe; and she, herself, Mrs.
Among the multitude of our new experiences we learned the value of a judicious "tip." We had learned something concerning tips on the "Plutonia"; Campbell had coached us concerning those, and we were provided with a schedule of rates so much to the bedroom steward, so much to the stewardess, to the deck steward, to the "boots," and all the rest.
Jack was too excited by his happiness to have noticed Mrs. De Peyster's voice had it been a dozen-fold more unlike Matilda's than it was. "Yes!" he cried. "And wouldn't it surprise mother if she knew! Mother, sailing so unsuspiciously along on the Plutonia!" He gave a chortle of delight. "But oh, I say, Matilda," he cried suddenly, "you mustn't write her!" Mrs. De Peyster did not answer.
In Which We View, and Even Mingle Slightly with, the Upper Classes It is astonishing the ease with which the human mind can accustom itself to the unfamiliar and hitherto strange. Nothing could have been more unfamiliar or strange to Hephzibah and me than an ocean voyage and the "Plutonia." And yet before three days of that voyage were at an end we were accustomed to both to a degree.
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