"I suppose so; yes, I believe so. And they have had a great time, and Davy has come off with a blue ribband or something, and been greatly distinguished."
"Well?" said Matilda eagerly.
"Well. They all went to it, grandma and aunt Judy, and they don't know whether they are most pleased or most vexed."
"Vexed?" repeated Matilda.
"Yes. You see, their Jew friends and relations are getting great hold of Davy; and now I suppose he will be more of a Jew than ever."
"How will that make him different?" said Matilda, puzzled.
"Different?" said Norton. "Why, you don't think Jews are like all the rest of the world, do you?"
"I don't know," Matilda answered. "I think—if I was a Jew—I would like it."
To which Norton answered at first with a questioning frown; then cleared his brow and laughed.
"You'd like anything that made you different from the rest of the world," he said. "But you're a Pink! and that makes it of course."