The Heart of the Ocean

The next morning, Katerina and Cal went down to Third class to meet up with Jack to thank him for the rescue the night before. Before they soon just walked around the deck with Jack telling more about himself to Katerina and Cal. Not that she seemed to mind.

"Well, I've been on my own since I was 1 5 since my folks died. And I had no brothers or sisters or close kin in that part of the country.
So I lit on out of there and I haven't been back since. You could just call me a tumbleweed blowing in the wind." Jack said before switching to another subject. "Well, Katerina, Cal...we've walked about a mile around this boat deck and chewed over how great the weather's been and how I grew up but I reckon that's not why you two came to talk to me, is it?"

"Mr. Dawson, we..."

"Jack."

"Jack..." Katerina and Cal corrected themselves. "We want to thank you for what you did. Not just for... for pulling Katerina back but for your discretion."

"You're welcome."

"Look, I know what you must be thinking.
Poor little rich girl and boy. What does they know about misery?"

"No. No, that's not what I was thinking. What I was thinking was what could have happened to this girl and boy to make them think they had no way out?"

"Well, I...It was everything. It was my whole world and all the people in it and the inertia of my life plunging ahead and me, powerless to stop it." Cal and Katerina showed Jack the giant ring that Richard and Alice gave them.

"God!" Jack was shocked at the size. " Look at that thing. You would have gone straight to the bottom."

"500 invitations have gone out. All of Philadelphia society will be there and all the while I feel I'm...standing in the middle of a crowded room screaming at the top of my lungs and no one even looks up."

"Do you love them?"

Cal and Katerina surprised by the question. "Pardon us?"

"Do you love them?"

"You're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking us this." Cal said.

"Well, it's a simple question. Do you love the them or not?"

"This is not a suitable conversation." Katerina said.

"Why can't you two just answer the question?"

Katerina and Cal laughed nervously. "This is absurd. You don't know us, and we don't know you and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth and presumptuous and we are leaving now." Cal and Katerina shook hands with Jack. "Jack. Mr. Dawson, it's been a pleasure. I sought you out to thank you and now I have thanked you..."

"And you've insulted me." Jack added.

"Well, you deserved it." Cal and Katerina said together.

"Right."

"Right."

"Right."

Katerina and Cal couldn't stop shaking both of his hand which just amused Jack at that point.

"I thought you guys were leaving." Jack said with an amused smile.

"We are." Cal said starting to leave with Katerina but they turned back to him. "You are so annoying."

Jack chuckled as they started to leave. But Katerina and Cal was quick to turn back.

"Wait. We don't have to leave. This is our part of the ship. You leave." Cal said as he and Katerina pointed away from them.

"Oh-ho-ho, well, well, well." Jack was still amused by the man and girl. "Now who's being rude?"

Cal and Kate said nothing, not knowing how to respond to that. They saw the art folder that Jack had been carrying around and Cal took it from him., asking what it was. Katerina opened it to reveal all of Jack's work. They sat down to look at them more and Jack sat in between Cal and Katerina. All the drawings were of people. A lot of them naked women.

"Jack, this is exquisite work." Katerina said, admiring his work.

"Ah. They didn't think too much of them in old Paree." Jack said.

"Paris! You do get around for a poor..." Cal cut Katerina off. "Well, uh, uh, a person of limited means."

"Go on, a poor guy, you can say it."

Katerina and Cal turned the page to see sketch of naked women

"And these were drawn from life?" Katerina asked.

Jack nodded while Cal and Katerina hid the picture from a passing man.

"Well, that's one of the good things about Paris. Lots of girls willing to take their clothes off." Jack said.

Katerina and Cal chuckled and turned the page again to see the same woman over and over.

"You liked this woman." Cal commented. "You used her several times."

"Well, she had beautiful hands, you see?" Jack said.

"I think you must have had a love affair with her." Cal added.

"No, no, no, no, no. Just with her hands. She was a one-legged prostitute. See?"

Jack showed Katerina and Cal a full-body picture he drew of the prostitute, proving that she did only have one leg. Katerina and Cal was surprised by it.

"Ah, she had a good sense of humor, though. Oh, and this lady..." Jack turned the page to reveal an upper-class lady, "she used to sit
at this bar every night wearing every piece of jewelry she owned just waiting for her long-lost love. Called her Madame Bijou. See how her clothes are all moth-eaten?"

Cal and Katerina "Well, you have a gift, Jack.
You do. You see people."

"I see you guys."

"And?"

"You wouldn't have jumped." Jack said directly to Katerina.

Meanwhile, back in First Class, Ruth and Rose was talking with two other women about how the whole point of going to university was to find a suitable husband and that Alice has already done that. One of the women pointed out that Molly was coming over. Ruth told them to start leaving before Molly spotted them. But Molly caught them just as they were leaving, explaining that she hoped to catch them all at tea.

Ruth told her that she had just missed them and they were heading off to get some air on the boat deck. Molly thought that was a great idea as she could catch them up on her gossip during that time. William, Nathan, and Richard came and asked the group where they were going, and Molly said that they were going to the boat deck. They walked passed Mr. Ismay and the Captain on their way out. Mr. Ismay was voicing his disappointment at the fact the Captain hadn't lift the last four boiler

The Captain told him that he didn't see the need to as they were making excellent time. Mr. Ismay told him that the pass already knew of Titanic's size and now he wanted them to marvel at her speed. He also wanted to ensure that her maiden voyage made headlines when they arrived in America.

The Captain voiced his concerns about pushing the engines until they had been properly run in. Mr. Ismay pretended to back down before continuing on about what a glorious end of the Captain's career would be if they made it to America before the estimated date. The Captain silently considered it which didn't go noticed by Mr. Ismay who knew he had just gotten his way.