Read "Annunciata" by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Six weeks later two young Americans were sitting on the deck of the Cunarder _Siberia_, which had that morning left the Queenstown harbor.
"Jack," said the one, laying his hand on the other's shoulder in a way that expressed an untold amount of friendliness, "I don't think it is good policy to keep silence any longer. I know I have committed my monumental piece of folly, as you prophesied, but I need hardly tell you, Jack, that I didn't know at the time what -- what I know now," he finished, hurriedly.