Nicholas, her last port
of call before Jamaica. It was understood that as a preliminary
Lord Julian should report himself to the Deputy-Governor at Port
Royal, whence at need he might have himself conveyed to Tortuga.
Now it happened that the Deputy-Governor's niece had come to St.
Nicholas some months earlier on a visit to some relatives, and so
that she might escape the insufferable heat of Jamaica in that
season. The time for her return being now at hand, a passage was
sought for her aboard the Royal Mary, and in view of her uncle's
rank and position promptly accorded.
Lord Julian hailed her advent with satisfaction. It gave a voyage
that had been full of interest for him just the spice that it
required to achieve perfection as an experience. His lordship was
one of your gallants to whom existence that is not graced by
womankind is more or less of a stagnation. Miss Arabella Bishop
- this straight up and down slip of a girl with her rather boyish
voice and her almost boyish ease of movement - was not perhaps a
lady who in England would have commanded much notice in my lord's
discerning eyes.
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