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ith such goings on. Do you learn of that sort of thing from your nephew? Really, Richard, I'm amazed at you!"
"Nonsense, Uncle Bin, I passed through that stage long ago. I used to girl around in my callow days, but I got fed up with it, and now life holds more worthwhile temptations. It's an old story to auntie, too. Why she used to chaperon my giddiest parties,--bless her!"
Sir Herbert's sharp eyes looked from one of his companions to the other.
"You're a pair," he opined, "both tarred with the same brush."
"And the brush?" asked Miss Prall, belligerently.
"Modern sophistication and the present-day fad of belittling everything that is interesting or pleasurable."
"That mental phase is the inevitable result of worldly experience," said the lady, with a cynical smile. "How is it that you preserve such youthful interest?"
"Well--" and the Englishman looked a little quizzical, "you see, the girls are still young."
"Very young," assented Bates, gravely. "There's a new bunch of Squabs at the Gaynight Revue that'll do you up! Better buy that place out, Unkie!"
"Perhaps; but now, young Richard, let's discuss some more imminent, if not more important, questions. Say, Buns, for instance."
"Nothing doing. I've said my last word on the Bun subject, and if you persist in recurring to it, you'll only get that last word over again,--repeated, reiterated, recapitulated and,--if necessary,--re?nforced!"
"Well, when you do--what?"
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