"To you, decidedly."
"Well, Phil can be very disagreeable when he sets out to be. I should not want to be that, you know."
"You couldn't," said Grit, with an admiring glance.
"That's a compliment," said Marion. "But you're mistaken. I can be disagreeable when I set out to be. I expect Phil finds me so sometimes."
"I wouldn't."
"You know how to flatter as well as to row, Mr. Grit. It's true. I tease Phil awfully sometimes."
By this time Phil came back with a new hat on his head, holding Grit's in the tips of his fingers, as if it would contaminate him. He pitched it into Grit's lap, saying shortly:
"There's your hat."
"Upon my word, Phil, you're polite," said his cousin. "Can't you thank Mr. Grit?"
"Mr. Grit!" repeated Phil contemptuously. "Of course I thank him."