"The same eyes!"
"Mouth!"
"Hair!"
"I cannot understand it," said Miss Celia; "these are certainly Elinor's twins, but how does it happen that both are girls?"
"I'll tell you——" Gay began.
"Let us go in the house," said Miss Celia, taking the real May by the hand and giving the General, who still held May's other hand, a smile that made him feel that life was as fair as the dawn of spring.
Miss Linn met them at the hall door, but no one thought to introduce her, and she followed them into the drawing-room, where Gay told the story of the masquerade with which we are already familiar.
"What!" they cried, when he was finished, "are you a boy?"
"Yes—thank goodness!" said Gay, piously.