"She is too polite to interrupt you," said Rose. "Do you mean to say that West Point girls talk like that?"
"Some of the girls. Cherry will when I have walked with her a few times."
Cherry glanced up in quick denial, meeting then the aforesaid eyes looking so handsome and competent and full of frolic and power that her own beat a hasty retreat.
"And you walk with such girls?" demanded Violet.
"Oh, yes—" Magnus said easily. "One cannot be uncivil just because they are complimentary."
"But before breakfast!" said Rose. "Is there no other half hour in the day that would do?"
"My dear girl, it's not that half hour in particular; it is every half hour they can get. You wouldn't have them pink and white their cheeks for nothing."
"Pink their cheeks?"
"Why, yes," said Magnus. "Pink them—frost them. I'm sure I don't know how it's done."