"Your daughter, sir."
"God bless me!" said the shipper. "You want a lot."
"Hadn't you foreseen that, too?" asked Alec, smiling.
"I wouldn't be truthful if I said no," said the shipper.
"Your answer?" said Alec.
"My answer?" said the shipper. "What about the girl? Don't you think it would be a good thing to ask her?"
"I have," said Alec, blushing. "She's like that man I told you of once."
"That man?" said the shipper, puzzled. "What man? What was his name?"
"Barkis," said Alec.