"Thank you so much. Now, as to drink? Shall I take the
Friedrichshalle first or the Benedictine? You know the doctor
insists upon the Friedrichshalle, but I don't think I did well to
mix them as I did yesterday. Or shall I take simply milk and
beer?"

"I should say simplicity was best. Besides, you can always fill up
with champagne later."

How splendidly this clear-headed, clear-eyed girl dominated the
man! Lummox felt that REALLY he might renew her acquaintance! He
did so.

"I remembered you," she said. "You've not changed a bit since you
were eight years old."

John, wishing to change the subject, said that he thought Mr.
Starling seemed an uncertain man.

"Very! He's even now in his stateroom sitting in his pyjamas with
a rubber shoe on one foot and a pump on the other, wondering
whether he ought to put on golf knickerbockers with a dressing-gown
and straw hat before he comes on deck. He has already put on and
taken off about twenty suits."

"He certainly is very trying," returned Lummox. He paused and
colored deeply. "I beg," he stammered, "I hope--you don't think me
guilty of a pun! When I said 'trying' I referred entirely to the
effect on your sensitiveness of these tentative attempts toward