"Why not?"
"Suppose my father chooses someone else for me?"
"But surely he will not."
"Suppose he has already promised me——"
"Why go and suppose such dreadful things? Besides, he ought to remember that I risked my life to save yours; that——"
Milenko stopped for a moment, and then he added:
"Well, I don't like boasting; still, if it had not been for me—well, I suppose your caique would have foundered. No, tell me that you love me, or at least that you might get to love me. Let me ask your father——"
"No, no; not yet."
"Why not?"
"Well, we hardly know each other. Who knows, perhaps, the next port you go to——"