Is there not something you would like to tell me--in confidence, if you will have it so ?" For an instant she hesitated, then slowly she shook her head.

"There is nothing, Captain Rifle." "And yet--you came aboard very strangely," he urged.

"You will recall that it was most unusual--without reservation, without baggage--" "You forget the hand-bag," she reminded him.
"Yes, but one does not start for northern Alaska with only a hand-bag scarcely large enough to contain a change of linen, Miss Standish." "But I did, Captain Rifle." "True.

And I saw you fighting past the guards like a little wildcat.

It was without precedent." "I am sorry.