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In the meanwhile Dominga and Captain Fielder lounged on a bench -- conspicuously aloof from the crowd. A somewhat constrained silence had fallen between them; he was wondering if this handsome girl, with talking eyes and vivid expression, was "good fun"? She was meditating as to whether she might treat him as just a common, every-day officer, or not? Dom had finally made up her mind -- as she looked up quickly and met his full, bold stare, a stare so prolonged and searching that another girl would have felt affronted and abashed; not so Dominga.
"Well? " she asked, raising her eyebrows interrogatively. "Now, tell me candidly, what do you think of them?"