who is maud and how is humphrey familiar with her?

Something is very weird about the Ghost. Not only does the ship carry the crew on its mission to hunt seals, but it has a strange habit of picking up shipwreck survivor who happen to be writers. Maud Brewster is both another rescued survivor and another writer. She also happens to be the romantic interest of Hump. She too is both repulsed and somewhat mesmerized by Wolf’s nature; he is pure evil, but carries that evil within personality that is a f0rce of nature to be reckoned with and, on a certain primal level, respected. Eventually, she and Hump will fall in love and work in tandem to reject the dying Larsen’s efforts to obstruct their attempt at escape.