"She'll grow out of it soon," said Mrs. Kingdom; "you wait and see."
The captain growled and waited, and found his sister's prognostications
partly fulfilled. The exuberance of Miss Nugent's manner was certainly
modified by time, but she developed instead a quiet, unassuming habit of
authority which he liked as little.
"She gets made such a fuss of, it's no wonder," said Mrs. Kingdom, with a
satisfied smile. "I never heard of a girl getting as much attention as
she does; it's a wonder her head isn't turned."
"Eh!" said the startled captain; "she'd better not let me see anything of
it."
"Just so," said Mrs. Kingdom.
The captain dwelt on these words and kept his eyes open, and, owing to
his daughter's benevolent efforts on his behalf, had them fully occupied.
He went to sea firmly convinced that she would do something foolish in
the matrimonial line, the glowing terms in which he had overheard her
describing the charms of the new postman to Mrs. Kingdom filling him with
the direst forebodings.
It was his last voyage.
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