“Glad to make your acquaintance,” exclaimed Dick, boisterously, striding forward to shake her hand.
“Show the Cap'n to the dining room, will you, Josie?” Spencer said. “I 'll step out and call the boys.”
Mrs. Spencer led the way through the short hall to the dining room, where a table was spread for Spencer's eight or ten men (Mc-Glory and the crew were to eat on the Merry Anne). Dick, stepping high, followed her, and found himself being presented to a blond young woman with blue eyes and an agreeable expression. “My sister Estelle, Cap'n Smiley,” said Mrs. Spencer.
“Glad to meet you,” said Dick, looking so hard at her as they shook hands that she blushed and dropped her eyes.
Mrs. Spencer slipped out to the kitchen after the introduction, leaving them to await the men.
“You've never been here before?” she ventured.
“Never have. Do you live here?”
“Yes, I've been with sister four years now.”
“Well, say, this is a pretty lonely place for a girl like you. I 'll have to sail around often.”
“I guess you will.”