I Unclench My Hands

As I have said, owing to the small size, of the vessel, and the
fact that considerable of the space had been used for baths, there
were, besides the family, only two guests, a Mrs. Johns, a divorcee,
and a Mr. Vail. Mrs. Turner and Miss Lee shared the services of a
maid, Karen Hansen, who, with a stewardess, Henrietta Sloane,
occupied a double cabin. Vail had a small room, as had Turner, with
a bath between which they used in common. Mrs. Turner's room was a
large one, with its own bath, into which Elsa Lee's room also opened.
Mrs. Johns had a room and bath. Roughly, and not drawn to scale,
the living quarters of the family were arranged like the diagram.

I have said that things were not going smoothly in the after house.
I felt it rather than, saw it.  The women rose late--except Miss Lee,
who was frequently about when I washed the deck.  They chatted and
laughed together, read, played bridge when the men were so inclined,
and now and then, when their attention was drawn to it, looked at the
sea.  They were always exquisitely and carefully dressed, and I looked
at them as I would at any other masterpieces of creative art, with
nothing of covetousness in my admiration.

The men were violently opposed types Turner, tall, heavy-shouldered,
morose by habit, with a prominent nose and rapidly thinning hair, and
with strong, pale blue eyes, congested from hard drinking; Vail,
shorter by three inches, dark, good-looking, with that dusky flush
under the skin which shows good red blood, and as temperate as Turner
was dissipated.