“Of course not; but I don’t know any of the others.”
“But you can?”
“How?” Barth queried blankly.
“Why, talk to them, do the things they do—oh, just get acquainted; that’s all,” the girl answered, with some impatience.
He raised his brows inquiringly. It was not the first time that Nancy had been annoyed by the expression.
“Talk to people, before you have been introduced to them?”
“Yes. Why not?”
“No reason; only it’s not our way.”
“Whose way?”
“The way we English people do.”