Here Bessie Benton burst into a laugh.
"What a vain, self-conceited boy you are, Maurice," she said.
"I don't call myself a boy at all," said Maurice, with lofty indignation.
"You're a young gentleman, then?"
"Of course I am."
"At what hotel did you say you stopped?" he asked, a minute later.
"I didn't say," said Tom.
Bessie laughed again, and Maurice colored with anger.
"If you'd rather not tell," he returned, "it's of no consequence."
"It's the Ohio Hotel."