8/10 Marian, therefore, was pleased when she found that Dave was to be her dinner partner. He'll make his mark in the Navy. He doesn't know it yet, but he'll become mine, and mine alone." Miss Stevens was a calculating young person, and had already decided that Navy life was the life for her and that she would marry into it. At seventeen, she looked upon the officers as old men, even the youngest of them, so was giving her time and her smiles to the midshipmen. That the Navy pay is small did not trouble Maid Marian, as she liked to be called, as on her twenty-first birthday she would come into a considerable fortune of her own. |