"Been to a concert with my aunt and cousins," he volunteered to Denis.
"Like it?"
He frowned.
"I like going to concerts alone," he observed ungallantly.
And Nell dimpled, as she mentally drew pictures.
He could not come in with them, as he was due somewhere else, but the real regret in his face and voice prompted them to insist that he should come very soon.
Up in the Stronghold Sheila Pat turned to Denis.
"I'm thinking you make very unrespectful friends, Denis O'Brien," she remarked austerely. "That boy—" pause—"pulled—my—pig-tail!"
CHAPTER XV
Nell stirred energetically.