When the words, "I am an Englishwoman," fell from her lips, he let out an oath, and slapped his thigh with the fiat of his hand.

"Of course it is! I thought I know'd her when she come in.
English, is she?
What a lot o' lies they do be puttin' up.

She never saw England.

She's a dago from 'cross town.

Won't Mrs.Cleary's eyes pop when I tell her!" The group in front of the captain's desk disintegrated.