“Yes, you do; you understand it as well as myself.”
“I have a suspicion of it, but are you afraid to trust me?”
“You ought to know better than to ask that.”
“Go ahead then and give me the partic’lars.”
“In the first place then, the lieutenant is young and good looking.”
“Unfortinitly there can’t be any doubt of that.”
“Nellie Dawson has never seen a handsome young man–––”
“Exceptin’ you and me, and we ain’t as young as we once was.”
“She is now a young woman and ready to fall in love, and just at the right hour, or rather the very worst hour, the captain brings the man here.”