“Your mother.”
“I don’t know—I cannot remember her.”
“Are you—is your sister like her?”
“Hildegarde is very like papa, and people say I am very like Hildegarde.”
“You are extremely like each other, especially at first sight.”
“Oh, I know that Hildegarde is a great deal handsomer than I am!”
This was a fact, and Hamilton was puzzled for an answer, when she added, after a pause—
“But Major Stultz says I am much more lovable than she is!”
“Major Stultz is a man of discrimination,” said Hamilton, looking around him listlessly.
“He says, too, we shall be very happy when we are married!”