"I have never shewn any other."
"Guy," she said speaking low and rather anxiously,--"have you got into trouble with those young men?"
"I am in no trouble, mother," he answered somewhat haughtily; "I cannot speak for them."
Mrs. Carleton waited a moment.
"You have done something to displease them, have you not?"
"They have displeased me, which is somewhat more to the purpose.
"But their folly is nothing to you?"
"No,--not their folly."
"Guy," said his mother, again pausing a minute, and pressing her hand more heavily upon his shoulder, "you will not suffer this to alter the friendly terms you have been on?--whatever it be,--let it pass."
"Certainly--if they choose to apologize and behave themselves."