"It depends on--" "On me ?" "I didn't say so." Her head went up a bit.
"On you ?" "I didn't say so." "Well, let it go.

But we will be pals again, Annette, I vow.

Good-bye." Captain Jack lifted his hat and moved away.
As he reached his car he ran up against young Rupert Stillwell.
"Deucedly pretty Annette has grown, eh ?" said Stillwell.
"Annette's all right," said Jack, rather brusquely, entering his car.
"Working in your box factory, I understand, eh ?" "Don't really know," said Jack carelessly.

"Probably." The crowd had meantime faded away with Captain Jack's going.
"Did na know the Captain was a friend of yours, Annette," said Mack, falling into step beside her.
"No--yes--I don't know.

We went to Public School together before the war.