"Jim Hawkins!" said Kitty, promptly.
"No fiction allowed this time, Missy, only history!"
"Oh, dear! well, then—Francis Drake!"
"Bound to have a pirate, aren't you, Kitty?" said Gertrude, mischievously.
"He wasn't a pirate!" cried Kitty, indignantly. "He was a great hero."
"L'un n'empêchait pas l'autre, in those days!" said Bell.
"Well, now for yourself, Bell!" said Margaret. "It is your turn."
"Oh, I didn't need any two minutes," said Bell. "I am always William the Silent. I should be Beethoven if it were not for the deafness, but that I could not have borne."
"You all want to be men, don't you?" observed Margaret, thoughtfully.
"Why—yes, so we do! you are the only one who chose a woman."