"Why, with one as wholly deceitful as she is there can be no telling where it would all have ended.

She might have drawn me into troubles that would have resulted in my having to leave the service!" Dan had not the least desire to do any one an injustice, but just now he was so astounded and indignant that his mind worked violently rather than keenly.
"Serves me right!" sputtered Dalzell, at last.

"A man in the Navy has no business to think about the other sex.

He should give his whole time and thought to his profession and his country.
That's what I'll surely do after this." Having reached this conclusion, the midshipman should have been more at peace with himself, but he wasn't.

He had been sorely, even if foolishly wounded in his own self esteem, and it was bound to hurt until the sensation wore off.
"You'll know more, one of these days, Danny boy," was his next conclusion.