"Did you quarrel with any of them?"
"I didn't dream of myself at all."
"Did any of the sailors quarrel with me?"
"There wasn't any quarrelling, Jo, that I can remember."
"So you see," said Joshua, "that it is all fudge."
"I don't see that at all. Now I think of it, it isn't likely that I should dream of quarrelling with any one or fighting with any one when I was dreaming of you, Jo."
"Or perhaps you haven't any combativeness, Dan."
"Perhaps I haven't. It wouldn't be of much use to me if I had, for I shouldn't know how to fight."
"Or perhaps your combativeness is so small that it won't act," said Joshua sportively.
"Don't joke about it, Jo," said Dan. "You don't know how serious I am, and how disappointed I feel at its being a failure. Will you try it again to-night?"