"Bumble isn't exactly romantic, but it sounds awfully jolly." "She is jolly," said Patty, "and so is Bob.

They're twins, about sixteen, and they're just brimming over with fun and mischief.

Bumble's real name is Helen, but I guess no one ever called her that.

Helen seems to mean a fair, tall girl, slender and graceful, and rather willowy; and Bumble is just the opposite of that: she's round and solid, and always tumbling down; at least she used to be, but she may have outgrown that habit now.
Anyway, she's a dear." "And what is Bob like ?" asked her father.

"I haven't seen him since he was a baby." "Bob?
Oh, he's just plain boy; awfully nice and obliging and good-hearted and unselfish, but I don't believe he'll ever be President." "I think I shall like your two cousins," said Kenneth, with an air of conviction.