"And just think, I almost made the break of telling him he looked like a sailor aboard our ship. They might be twins, though. You never saw such a resemblance."
"It would be dreadful indeed to say anything like that," responded the other.
When I returned, we drank a little more and then I said to the captain:
"Don't you recognize me?"
He squirmed.
"Well—yes—but——"
"You mean you don't recognize me?"
"But, Count, have I really met you before?"
"Of course, don't you remember me?"
He wrestled with a temptation to speak out, but fought it down.