"Pauline! Pauline! Do think what you're saying," Mrs. Grey protested.
"I like lantern-light, too," Margaret proclaimed.
"When you come to see us again," said Pauline, "will you bring your dog?"
"Oh, I say, shall I?" asked Guy, flushing with pleasure.
"Such a lamb, Margaret," said Pauline, kissing her sister impulsively and being straightly reproved for doing so.
The good-nights were all said, and Guy walked up the drive with Brydone and Willsher.
"Queer family, aren't they?" commented the doctor's son.
"Extraordinarily charming," said Guy.
"I've known them all my life," said Willsher, a little querulously. "And yet I never seem to know them any better."
Guy was so much elated by this admission that he repeated more warmly his invitation to come and see him and his books, and parted from the two friends very pleasantly.