"What are you going to do with it, Dolly?" Mrs. Eberstein asked at length, wishing to get into the child's thoughts.
"I'll keep it, Aunt Harry. And when I have anything to wear it with, I will wear it. When I am old enough, I mean."
"What did you do to that young fellow, to make him show you such an attention?"
"Do to him? I didn't do anything to him, Aunt Harry!"
"It was very kind of him, wasn't it?"
"Very kind. I guess he is kind," said Dolly.
"Maybe we shall see him again one of these days, and have a chance to thank him. The midshipmen get leave to come on shore now and then."
But no such chance offered. The "Achilles" sailed out of those waters, and her place in the river was empty.