"How do you do?" she said, coolly.
The young man became embarrassed at her manner. He did not know what to say.
"Miss Crowley is a marvelous diver," he muttered, though it wasn't that that he wanted to talk about.
"Yes, I think so," agreed Linda.
There was a silence. The girl made no effort to be entertaining.
"You really are the girl who flew across the ocean alone, and won that big prize?" he persisted.
"Yes." Linda made a half-hearted gesture to repress a yawn. Jackson Carter needn't think he could buy her favor by flattery!
"But why didn't you tell Hal and me that, when we found you in the swamp?"
"It had no particular bearing on the subject, that I could see."