"You need not question that. We are going to be friends, Miss Macklin. Is it necessary for me to bring you references?"
"It may be necessary for me to obtain a sponsor," she said, quite seriously. "You do not know a thing about me, Captain Latham."
"You know nothing about me, except what I have told you." And he laughed.
"And what I read in your countenance," she said soberly.
He grinned at her, but rather ruefully.
"I never knew my thoughts were advertised in my face."
"Oh, no! Not that! But your character is. Otherwise I would not be sitting here with you."
"I guess that's all right then," he declared with satisfaction. "Well, let's call it a draw. If you take me at face value, I'll take you at the same rating. Anyhow, we can risk going to supper together."
"Well, somewhere to a quiet place. Don't take me where you are known, Captain Latham."
"No?" He was puzzled again. "But, then, I am not known anywhere in Boston."