"Thank you for recalling me to myself and my circumstances.

I have my end to gain--and who am I, to pick and choose the way of getting to it?
It is my turn to beg pardon now.

I have been talking as if I was a young lady of family and position.

Absurd! We know better than that, don't we, Captain Wragge?
You are quite right.

Nobody's child must sleep under Somebody's roof--and why not yours ?" "This way," said the captain, dexterously profiting by the sudden change in her humor, and cunningly refraining from exasperating it by saying more himself.