The boat went steadily; spirits revived;
and soon the passage was brought to an end and the sail-boat
laid alongside the little jetty, on which the party, men,
women and children, stepped out with as sincere a feeling of
pleasure as had moved them all day. Carriages were in waiting;
a few minutes brought the whole company to Melbourne House.
Here they were to stay supper; and the ladies and gentlemen
dispersed to various dressing rooms to prepare for it. Soonest
of all ready and in the drawing-room were the three children.
"I am so hungry!" said Nora.
"So am I!" said Ella Stanfield.
"We shall have supper presently," said Daisy.
"Oh, Daisy, weren't you afraid in the boat, when it went up
and down so?"
"I do not think I was afraid," said Daisy, "if other people
had not been so disturbed."
"I don't see how they could help being disturbed," said Ella
Stanfield. "Why, the boat didn't sail straight at all."
"But _that_ does not do any harm," said Daisy.
"How do you know?" said Nora. "_I_ think it does harm; I do not
think it is safe."
"But you know, Nora, when the disciples were in the boat, and
thought it was not safe — the wind blew so, you know — they
ought to have trusted Jesus, and not been afraid.
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