"But I'm heart-glad to see you.

It's brought back my youth for a little while.

You don't know yet what a boon THAT is.
Mistress Blythe here has the trick--she does it quite often for me." Captain Jim was still more excited when he discovered that Owen Ford was what he called a "real writing man." He gazed at him as at a superior being.

Captain Jim knew that Anne wrote, but he had never taken that fact very seriously.

Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.
"Jest look at A Mad Love," he would protest.