Chapter 33 FELICIA HESITATES

Felicia looked at me for a moment with wide-open eyes. Then a little stream of color rushed into her cheeks, her lips slowly parted, and she laughed, not altogether without embarrassment.

"Capitaine Rotherby," she said, "you must not say such things-so suddenly!"

"Last time we met," I reminded her, "you called me Austen."

"Austen, then, if