Among English Inns - The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural England (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

"The steamer that goes between Havre and Southampton was just rounding the Isle of Wight, when three dejected-looking young women stepped out of a deck cabin into the clear air of the July morning. They had survived and endured with bitter complaints one of those noted passages which the English Channel has the monopoly. The waves had dashed furiously all night long against the small ship; it had groaned and shivered in response, and these three women had groaned and shivered in concert with each creaking timber."