Trade Wind
“But Aunt Abby had no intention of presenting her niece until those disfiguring bruises had faded, and she had been adamant. Dear Hero, she informed them, was still feeling very shaken, and Dr Kealey had advised that she should rest as much as possible, and on no account be permitted to discuss her terrifying ordeal, since to do so would only distress her and retard her recovery.
The callers had had to be content with a colourless account of the rescue, in which the Daffodil played substitut...e for the Virago, and when Dr Kealey, the Medical Officer attached to the British Consulate, had been interrogated by half-a-dozen interested matrons, he had been unable to add anything to the story.
Lieutenant Larrimore had proved equally uncommunicative (though in his case reticence had been misconstrued as modesty), while as for Hero herself, she possessed sufficient vanity to fall in with her aunt’s wishes and remain incommunicado until the interest died down and her bruises with it.MoreLess
The callers had had to be content with a colourless account of the rescue, in which the Daffodil played substitut...e for the Virago, and when Dr Kealey, the Medical Officer attached to the British Consulate, had been interrogated by half-a-dozen interested matrons, he had been unable to add anything to the story.
Lieutenant Larrimore had proved equally uncommunicative (though in his case reticence had been misconstrued as modesty), while as for Hero herself, she possessed sufficient vanity to fall in with her aunt’s wishes and remain incommunicado until the interest died down and her bruises with it.MoreLess
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