Alicia laughed.
"I'll introduce you."
She did.
"Well," said Alicia with a twinkle as they walked home together later, "what did you think of him?"
Alwynne flushed, but she laughed too.
"Cousin Alice—it was too bad of you. He just said 'How do you do?' and smiled politely. Then he said nothing at all for five minutes, and then he clutched at one of the girls and handed me over to her with another smile—an immensely relieved one—and drifted away. I've never been so snubbed in my life."
"You're not the first one. So you didn't like him?"
"Oh—I liked him," conceded Alwynne grudgingly.
They walked on in silence for a while.
"What's that?" Alwynne pointed to a large grey building half way down the avenue.