"Most likely," Jack agreed. "However, you always were rather strong for the girls. I hope you didn't tell her our business."
"Why—why, no," said Frank, flushing. "I simply told her she must not believe all she sees."
"Which was simply another way of telling her we are not what we represented ourselves to Captain Koenig," said Jack. "Now she'll probably go straight to the captain and tell him what she has learned."
"No, she won't," said Frank. "She wouldn't do that."
"How do you know she won't?"
"Well, I don't know it, but I don't think she will."
"What you think and what she may do are likely to be altogether different," declared Jack. "You are too quick with your tongue sometimes, Frank."
"But," Frank protested, "she thought we were Germans and ignored us."
"What do we care what she thinks? If she ignores us so much the better to my way of thinking."
"But—" Frank began.