"How did you ever—?"
"Why didn't you tell us that—?"
"How long—?"
"What will Billy Farrington say?" Hope asked at length.
"He'll say, 'Didn't I always tell you so?'" Hubert answered, smiling across the table at his twin sister.
Afterwards they lingered on the piazza, talking and laughing, begging to see the manuscript, teasing Theodora about her secretiveness, and congratulating her again and again. It was an attractive group, Theodora in the midst, a tall, handsome girl in the full ripeness of her maidenly beauty, her arm linked in that of her twin brother, while pretty Hope stood facing them, with Archie at her side.
Allyn came up to them as they stood there.
"Take these, Teddy," he said, holding out his hand.
"What are they, Allyn?" she asked, loosing Hubert's arm as she bent down over the child.
"Clovers, four-leafed ones. They will bring you luck," he answered, with childish superstition.