"And you've risked your commission to meet a girl for the second time?" Dave demanded almost unbelievingly.
"I haven't risked it much," Dan answered. "I'm in safe, now, and ready to face any discipline officer."
"But wouldn't this matter wait until November, when you're pretty sure to have the privilege of town leave again?" pressed Midshipman Darrin.
"By November a girl like Miss Preston might be married to some one else," retorted Dan Dalzell.
"It was a fool risk to take, Dan!"
"If you look at it that way."
"Will you promise me not to take the risk again, Danny boy?"
"No."
"It's a serious affair, then, so far as you are concerned," grinned
Dave, though in the dark Dan could not see his face. "For your sake,
Danny, I hope Miss Preston is as much interested in you as you
certainly are in her."
"Are you going to lecture me?"