But how, pray ?" Captain Jack's eyes opened wide.
"You, a Canadian, and our best player--at least, you used to be--to allow yourself to be beaten by a--a--" she glanced at his opponent with a defiant smile--"a foreigner." "Oh! I say, Miss Frances," exclaimed that young man.
"A foreigner ?" exclaimed Captain Jack.

"Better not let Adrien hear you." He turned toward a tall fair girl standing near.
"What's that ?" said the girl.

"Did I hear aright ?" "Well, he's not a Canadian, I mean," said Frances, sticking to her guns.
"Besides, I can't stand Adrien crowing over me.

She is already far too English, don-che-know.

You have given her one more occasion for triumph over us Colonials." "Ah, this is serious," said Captain Jack.