"
"Wilhelmina Bennett. Where on earth did you get the idea that her name
was Billie?"
"I had a notion that girls called Wilhelmina were sometimes Billie to
their friends."
"I never call her anything but Wilhelmina. But I really cannot talk
about it. The recollection tortures me."
"That's just what you want. It's the counter-irritation principle.
Persevere and you'll soon forget that you're on board ship at all."
"There's something in that," admitted Eustace reflectively. "It's very
good of you to be so sympathetic and interested."
"My dear fellow ... anything that I can do ... where did you meet her
first, for instance?"
"At a dinner...." Eustace Hignett broke off abruptly. He had a good
memory and he had just recollected the fish they had served at that
dinner--a flabby and exhausted looking fish, half sunk beneath the
surface of a thick white sauce.
"And what struck you most forcibly about her at first? Her lovely hair,
I suppose?"
"How did you know she had lovely hair?"
"My dear chap, I naturally assumed that any girl with whom you fell in
love would have nice hair.
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