And you mustn't wreck your chances.

You're young--" She laughed.
"Oh, no! I'm not," she said.

"Young! Cap'n Whittaker, you shouldn't joke about a woman's age." "I ain't jokin'.

You ARE young." As she stood there before him he was realizing, with a curiously uncomfortable feeling, how much younger she was than he.

He glanced up at the mirror, where his own gray hairs were reflected, and repeated his assertion.