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Olive and Dick Lancaster sat together in the captain's parlor. She was very quiet -- she had been very quiet of late -- but he was nervous.
"It is very kind, Mr. Lancaster," said Olive, breaking the silence, "for you to come to see us instead of writing. It is so much pleasanter for friends -- "