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Smithers will not object to Blanche, even if she was not
invited. I really could not leave her behind."
There was no reply from John, who was busy in the dressing-room, but a
fresh young voice from the doorway answered her:
"I think it was downright cheeky to bring her without an invitation.
With her giggling, and her _reelys_, and her _yis-es_--all she can
say--and her white eyebrows and tow hair, she is not very ornamental,
even if she has ten thousand a year."
The speaker was Neil McPherson, the boy who on the Fourth of July had
been thrashed by Grey Jerrold for his sneer at the American flag, find
his comments on American ladies. He was a year older than Grey, with a
dark, handsome face, a pleasant smile, and winsome ways when he chose to
be agreeable. As a rule, he was very good-natured, and his manners were
perfect for a boy of fifteen; but there was in all he did or said an air
of superiority, as if he felt himself quite above the majority of his
companions, which, indeed, was the fact.


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