POND
Hm. It's not a sweet business.
HALE
It's in my country's service! It seems that you, too, Lieutenant Pond, are in a new business. How long have you been in the navy?
POND
Two weeks.
HALE
I'm glad I found you here—I might have had some difficulty in convincing a stranger that I was really an officer in the Continental army.
POND
That's true enough. You look—well—more like a country schoolmaster than anything else.