"
She looked at Captain Crippen as though he hadn't quite come up to her
expectations.
"And now," said Pepper, speaking with great cheerfulness, "it's me
that's got to have the broken heart. Well, well."
"It's a most interesting case," cried Miss Winthrop; "and, if you wait
till I fetch my camera, I'll take your portrait together just as you
are."
"Do," said Mrs. Pepper cordially.
"I won't have my portrait took," said the captain, with much acerbity.
"Not if I wish it, dear?" inquired Mrs. Pepper tenderly.
"Not if you keep a-wishing it all your life," replied the captain
sourly, making another attempt to get his head from her shoulder.
"Don't you think they ought to have their portrait taken now?" asked
Miss Winthrop, turning to the ex-pilot.
"I don't see no 'arm in it," said Pepper thoughtlessly.
"You hear what Mr. Pepper says," said the lady, turning to the captain
again. "Surely if he doesn't mind, you ought not to."
"I'll talk to him by-and-bye," said the captain, very grimly.
"P'raps it would be better if we kept this affair to ourselves for the
present," said the ex-pilot, taking alarm at his friend's manner.
"Well, I won't intrude on you any longer," said Miss Winthrop. "Oh! Look
there! How rude of them!"
The others turned hastily in time to see several heads vanish from the
window.
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