On arriving at the hotel he learned that his aunt
had already gone to the wharf with her friends, and taking a cab, he,
too, was driven there, meeting with Neil, who confounded and disgusted
him with his apparent indifferences and heartlessness.
Absorbed in his own sad refection, Grey had no thought for any of his
fellow passengers, whether steerage or cabin, and disguised by her hood
and vail, Bessie might have brushed against him without recognition.
So he had no idea how near she was to him, and as the motion of the ship
soon began to affect him, he went to his state-room, which he scarcely
left again for several days. Once, when the doctor was visiting him, his
aunt, who was present, asked if there were many sick among the steerage
passengers, and if they were comfortable?
There was but one who was very sick, the doctor replied, and her case
puzzled him, she seemed so superior to her class, and so reticent with
regard to herself.
"I will go and see her," Lucy said, and that afternoon she made her
visit to Bessie, with the result we have seen.
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