The stewards, engineers, electricians and officers, meanwhile, settled in areas rippling out from the town's centre in strata of ever-increasing gentility.
There's no denying the seductive sweetness and gentility at the heart of this seemingly innocent, romantic tale of homesickness, lovesickness and seasickness.
There are mennot many to be surein whom the gentility and the iron were preserved in proper balance, each of these attributes to be summoned up as the occasion requires.