CYRIL TAKES HIS TURN Billy had been a member of the Beacon Street household a week before she repeated her visit to Cyril at the top of the house.

This time Bertram was not with her.

She went alone.

Even Spunk was left behind--Billy remembered her prospective host's aversion to cats.
Billy did not feel that she knew Cyril very well.

She had tried several times to chat with him; but she had made so little headway, that she finally came to the conclusion--privately expressed to Bertram--that Mr.
Cyril was bashful.