I mean...

not at all.

But...

were you wanting me ?" She closed the door, and came forward into the room, moving with that supple grace peculiarly her own.
"I want you to tell me something, Captain Tremayne, and I want you to be frank with me." "I hope I could never be anything else." "I want you to treat me as you would treat a man, a friend of your own sex." Tremayne sighed.

He had recovered from the surprise of her coming and was again his imperturbable self.
"I assure you that is the last way in which I desire to treat you.