"I think the captain exaggerated."
"He couldn't exaggerate that."
"But how can you like me when I'm all wrong?"
"I like you because of your possibilities. You've probably never met any one before who understood you as I do. Quite extraordinary the way you've improved since you came on board."
"And you've got fourteen days more to work on me! Do you think anybody will recognize me when I get back to Wyoming?"
"Now you are chaffing!" complained Percival. "You never take me seriously."
"Then you want me to be serious, and believe everything you say?"
He paused in awed contemplation of the direful consequences if she should, but for the life of him he couldn't stop.
"I want you to believe me," he said tenderly, "when I say that you've been most awfully sweet, and that I wouldn't give half a sovereign for any other girl's chances if you were within ten miles. I want you to know that I consider you the prettiest girl I've ever seen, and the most—"
Bobby tightened the rope about her waist.