7/33 Are you afraid of smoke ?" "No. If I were a man, I would smoke." "Perhaps you do ?" "I do not. When I begin that, if you please, I shall bob my hair." "Which would be a crime," he replied so earnestly that again he was surprised at himself. The huge main room, covering a third of the aft deck, was blue with smoke. A score of men were playing cards at round tables. |