"That's dangerous, taking things for granted. I advise you not to do it, Miss Child."
Still he stared as she received his advice in silence. Not a feature of the piquant, yet proud, arresting face, not a curve of the slim figure, did his old eyes miss.
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I guess you haven't forgotten who pointed me out," he persisted, after a pause. "Now think again. Have you? It might pay to remember."
"I do not remember, sir." She threw up her head in the characteristic way which the other Peter knew.
"Sure nothing could make you remember?"
"I'm sure nothing could."
"Very well, then, we must let that go for the present. Now to another subject. I hear you showed a good deal of pluck this morning in putting out a fire."
"Oh, after all, it may be only that!" Win thought.
She ought to have been relieved. But she was not certain whether relief was her most prominent emotion. The girl did not quite know what to make of herself, and the man was not giving her much time for reflection.