"I'm glad I did, too, for our trunks didn't come," she continued laughingly.
"Still, if he isn't here to receive them--There, Pete, aren't they beautiful ?" she cried, carefully taking from their wrappings two exquisitely decorated porcelain discs mounted on two long spikes.
"They're Batterseas--the real article.

I know enough for that; and they're finer than anything he's got.

Won't he be pleased ?" "Yes, Miss--ma'am, I mean," stammered the old man.
"These new titles come hard, don't they, Pete ?" laughed Bertram.
Pete smiled faintly.
"Never mind, Pete," soothed his new mistress.

"You shall call me 'Miss Billy' all your life if you want to.

Bertram," she added, turning to her husband, "I'm going to just run up-stairs and put these in Uncle William's rooms so they'll be there when he comes in.