A Woman in Revolt Author:Anne Lee Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m His greeting in the morning was as unembarrassed and matter-of-fact as if the night had not bewitched them into a mutual revelation of innermost things. Wit... more »h an instant's keen scrutiny of her face, while tucking her into her rug, he said: "Is it natural perversity of this particular woman that makes her look rested, with a sea on that has prostrated most of the other women on board? " '' Perhaps; more likely because I slept. But why, you arrogant man, am I more perverse than you for not being seasick? I wonder if you're also as heartless about it as I. I'm always so hideously glad when—well, the deck's as it is now." He looked down the rows of empty chairs with responsive grin. " It certainly is more restful, and gives one a sense of more breathing, not to mention walking space." His tone changing to mock severity,'' But you are heartless, Miss. As a youngster, during one entire, awful, unforgettable voyage I was sick; so I know what our miserable fellow-passengers aresuffering. Our poor little Japanese has been having an awful time of it. His cabin is directly opposite mine, and he wakened me at three A.m. with a series of heathenish wails and mut- terings that fairly made my blood run cold. While trying to make out if it were prayer or profanity, I heard some of the last in good hoosier American, then a grunt like a stuck pig, followed by several gasps and utter silence. Whereupon I went to the rescue: none too soon, either, as a powerful, bucolic gentleman from Arizona was hurling—pretty nearly everything he could lay his hands on into the upper berth; from which I unearthed an almost suffocated Nippon count, if you please, and a very ill man.'' " Poor little Jap! I hope it's not serious, is it? " she asked. " Sufficiently so to keep him in his berth for the...« less