"Nothing does, I can tell you. The room is all right, and everything in it. I've been kept in order, since I have had a naval officer to attend upon me."
"Don't I keep things in order, father?"
"If you do, your mother don't. She thinks that anywhere is a place, and that one place is as good as another."
"Mother seems to think I have neglected you lately. Have you missed me?"
"Missed you! no. I have had care and company. Where did you pick up that young man, Dolly?"
"I, father? I didn't pick him up."
"How came he here, then? What brought him?"
"I don't know," said Dolly. "Would you like to have me read to you?"
"No, child. Shubrick reads to me and talks to me. He's capital company, though he's one of your blue sort."
"Father! He is not blue, nor am I. Do you think I am blue?"