Eva looked at him again with some amusement. This particular type was somewhat new to her. He was so extraordinarily young.
"I'm very fond of Percy too," she said.
"Oh, but he's your brother," said Reggie.
"So he is."
She laughed again.
"How extremely handsome he is," she thought to herself, in a parenthesis. "Why was I never so young as that."
Then aloud,—
"I'm going to ask you to give me your arm, and take me to get something cold to drink. Do you like ices?" she asked with some experimental malice.
"Lemon water," said Reggie after consideration, "but not cream ices, they're stuffy, somehow. I'd better tell my mother where we're going, and then I can meet her again afterwards."