(With a faint glimmer of conviction this time.)
But the accent! You can't get away from it.
FREDA
Far be it from me to get away from it. On the contrary, I sought after it, and I flatter myself that I got it pretty close to the original. I'd like to meet this Freda. I'll wager my accent is nearer hers than her own is.
CAPT. EPPINGWELL
(Completely beaten, slowly.)
Then who the deuce are you? Where could you have learned that accent?
FREDA
(As one will tell a story.)
Why, I was caught in a storm over on Indian River. We were compelled to seek shelter in a little cabin, and whom should we find there, likewise driven in by the storm, but this Freda Moloof. There was no standing on ceremony nor conventionality. It was life or death, and in I went. We were storm-bound two days. And she was very kind to me.