“Nice hospitable lot of kids! And do the Benjamins stand for this?”
“They don’t know about it; it’s a secret.”
“They can see, can’t they? A blind man could have seen their outrageous manners,” he remarked, hotly.
“Parents have outrageous manners, too, you know, and we have to put up with them”—calmly.
“Well, I’m——”
“Don’t swear, Wally; Quakers don’t like it.”
“I never heard such nerve in my life! Lot of kids setting themselves up——”
“Try to put yourself in our place, Wally. When you were at school, did you long to have your mother visit you?”
“That was different——”