"Oh, hardly that."
"But I know, Miss Emily, and I cannot allow you to disparage your action so. 'Twas a most heroic thing, and I'm not worthy the risk and the effort."
"But you have been with Farragut; you were at Mobile Bay in the Hartford; you——"
"You did not know it then, surely?" in great surprise.
"I did not then; but since I did—as you persist in saying—save you, I am glad to know it now. But you have not told me your name."
"My name is Richard Revere. I am a lieutenant in the United States navy."
"How did you happen to come here?" curiously.
"I came about the ship."
"The ship?" she cried in alarm. "What of it?"
"I came to inspect it," he answered, evasively, something prompting him that he was getting in dangerous waters.