“What sheer nonsense! I’ve half a mind to scold you. Of course, Father is willing to put himself out for you. Only this morning he said he would do all in his power to get a ship for you to command.”
“He’s said something like that to me, too, several times.”
“Then he’ll do it, if you will only be patient. Father always keeps his word.”
“You ain’t seen the new parson yet, have you?” asked the seaman, anxious to change a dangerous subject.
“How could I, when I’ve just reached home? Father tells me he is a real Prince Charming,” she finished, with a wicked little laugh.
“Humph!”
“Is he, really, Uncle Josiah?”
“He ain’t so bad on looks, if that’s what you’re driving at.”
“Father says he must be very strong, too.”
“I cal’late he ain’t lacking on that p’int, 20 neither,” agreed the Captain, blinking his swollen eyelids.