"Half the world has talent of one sort or another; but that doesn't necessarily make them unable to live with any one else! Really, Will, it's becoming serious--about Cyril.

He's getting to be, for all the world, like those finicky old maids that that young namesake of yours wrote about.

He'll make us whisper and walk on tiptoe yet!" The other smiled.
"Don't you worry.

You aren't in any danger of being kept too quiet, young man." "No thanks to Cyril, then," retorted Bertram.

"Anyhow, that's one reason why I was for taking the kid--to mellow up Cyril.