To supply the place of scenery, it was hung round with crimson curtains, through which we were to make our entrances and exeunts.

Suppose you invent a flapdoodle. The flapdoodle can be any color, but your preferred flapdoodle is colored red.

When Malone next looked round he was gone. He is one of these Second-coming fanatics, he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them - Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.

Every one of these features is true of normal shipboard life, in which the absolute tyranny of the captain, the tradition of beatings and torturelike punishments, as well as the separation of men from their families is the norm.