It sure would, Mrs.Captain Kidd.

But I'm glad, mighty glad, to think she'd let me kiss her--if I wanted to.

Think of that, Mrs.Captain Kidd!--if I wanted to.

Oh, Lord!" And the humor of it crept in alongside the tragedy in Jolly Roger's heart, and he chuckled as he bent over his partridge breasts.
"If I wanted to," he repeated.

"Why, if I had a life to give, I'd give it--to kiss her just once! But, as it happens, Mrs.Captain Kidd--" Jolly Roger's breath cut itself suddenly short, and for an instant he grew tense as he bent over the stove.