"She took rather a fancy to you, didn't she?"
"It's not for me to say that exactly, though it's quite true she never thought any of the other women up to much, and she came here frequent, as you know."
"Yes, I remember. But when you have put two and two together, what then?"
"Well, between ourselves, I shouldn't be a bit surprised if, after living in the same house with the Captain for a month or two, she found out he weren't her sort and told him so."
"You think that is likely?"
"Well, I can tell you, Mr. Sterne, he wouldn't be my sort, and Miss Grover ain't the kind of young woman to be hustled into anything against her will."
"Well, and what next?"
"Well, suppose she told him definite, that the more she'd seen of him the less she liked him, and that she wasn't for taking him on at any price, what would happen then?"
"Well, Mrs. Tuke, what do you suppose would happen?"
"It seems to me, Mr. Sterne," Mrs. Tuke said, impressively, "that there'd be a kettle o' fish, as it were; a kind of general upset, don't you think so?"