what trouble you might have gotten into!"

Miss Hugonin pouted. "You needn't be such a grandfather," she

suggested, helpfully.

"But it's a serious business," he insisted. At this point Billy began

to object to her pouting as distracting one's mind from the subject

under discussion. "It--why, it's----"

"It's what?" she pouted, even more rebelliously.

"Crimson," said Mr. Woods, considering--"oh, the very deepest,

duskiest crimson such as you can't get in tubes. It's a colour was

never mixed on any palette. It's--eh? Oh, I beg your pardon."