"Yes, it was," answered Mr. Glenn.
"That's just the Halliburtons all over. They are ultra-honourable."
"I should like to see your friend Frank, and inquire how he manages to pick up his English."
"Let me bring him to tea to-morrow night!" cried Philip eagerly.
"You may, if you like."
"Hurrah!" shouted Philip. "And you'll persuade him not to mind his mother, but to come to our fishing party?"
"Philip!"
"Well, papa, I don't mean that, exactly. But I do not see the use of boys listening to their mothers just in everything."
Philip Glenn seized his note, and added a postscript:—"My father sais you are to come to tea to-morrow we shall be so joly." And it was despatched to Frank by a servant in livery.