"Because you have been at the Islands."
"Pray, how did you know that?"
"By your pronunciations."
"Ah, I see. But I was there only once, when I was quite young, with my father."
"And yet you have no lei to-night? That is hardly loyal, is it?"
"We came late and they had all been given out, I suppose."
"I have one in reserve. You must show your good-will to the musicians. Permit me." He turned with dignity to the console where he had so unceremoniously discarded his own lei and picked the garland up to lay it upon Alice's shoulders.
"But Robert," Fritzie cried, "you mustn't! That is a rose lei."
"What is the difference?" asked Kimberly.
"There's a superstition, you know, about a rose lei."