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Indeed, there was something even
tender in her voice as she spoke to Hannah and inquired after her
father. Then, turning to Grey, she laid one hand on his head, and taking
his chin in the other, looked searchingly in his face as she said:
"I wonder if you are the same boy I used to like so much, or has a trip
to Europe spoiled you, as it does so many Americans?"
"Not a bit of it," Grey answered, merrily. "Europe is grand; Europe is
beautiful; but she is very old, and I like young America better, with
her freedom and her go-ahead, even if she is not as intensely
respectable, and dignified, as her mother across the water."
The dinner-bell here put an end to the conversation, and Lucy preceded
her guests to the dining-room, followed by her brother, who had been
more than usually affectionate in his greeting to his sister, whom he
took in to dinner, while Grey escorted his mother and Miss McPherson.


CHAPTER VII.
THE DINNER, AT WHICH BESSIE IS INTRODUCED.

The soup and fish had been served, and during the interval while Mr.


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