The officer either didn't get Callie's none too subtle message - unlikely - or he as not willing to drop his goal, judging from his smile, but the thought of being close to a sea-sick girl did at least make him delay his plans of getting her in the sack, and he withdrew from the cabin with another dazzling smile, and a promise to check up on her - "We can't have a paying passenger fall ill on our ship, can't we?"<br/><br/>There Callie was, alone at last - again.