MANGAN [staggered]. Well! That's fairly blunt, Captain.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. It's true.
MANGAN. She doesn't think so.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. She does.
MANGAN. Older men than I have—
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [finishing the sentence for him].—made fools of themselves. That, also, is true.
MANGAN [asserting himself]. I don't see that this is any business of yours.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. It is everybody's business. The stars in their courses are shaken when such things happen.
MANGAN. I'm going to marry her all the same.
CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. How do you know?