They are frugally confining themselves to the admiration of the Japanese bows and arrows yonder.

Why have our Indians taken to making Japanese bows and arrows ?" Isabel despised the small pleasantry.

"Then you saw nobody at the hotel ?" she asked.
"Not even the Ellisons," said Basil.
"Ah, yes," said Isabel; "that was where we met them.

How long ago it seems! And poor little Kitty! I wonder what has become of them?
But I'm glad they're not here.

That's what makes you realize your age: meeting the same people in the same place a great while after, and seeing how old--they've grown.