"I don't understand."
"Come, now, Captain Randolph, how very ridiculous to pretend to be so ignorant!"
"Ignorant?" said Jack; "ignorant is not the word. I am in Egyptian darkness, I assure you."
"Egyptian darkness—Egyptian nonsense! Will it help you any if I tell you her name?"
"Her name! Whose name? What 'her'?"
Louie laughed long and merrily.
"Well," said she, at length, "for pure, perfect, utter, childlike innocence, commend me to Captain Randolph! And now, sir," she resumed, "will you answer me one question?"
"Certainly—or one hundred thousand."
"Well, what do you think of Miss Phillips?"
"I think she is a very delightful person," said Jack fluently—"the most delightful I have ever met with, present company excepted."