The most heroic fellows, I am told, can endure being extolled by pretty girls, but here seemed to be one who could not stand it.
"You need not think it is of you we are proud," she assured him light-heartedly; "it is really of ourselves.

I am proud of being your friend.

To-morrow, when I hear the town ringing your praises, I shall not say, 'Yes, isn't he wonderful ?' I shall say, 'Talk of me; I, too, am an object of interest, for I am his friend.'" "I have often been pointed out as his sister," said Elspeth, complacently.
"He did not choose his sister," replied Grizel, "but he chose his friends." For a time he could suck no sweetness from it.

She avoided the glove, he was sure, only because of Elspeth's presence.

But anon there arrived to cheer him a fond hope that she had not heard of it, and as this became conviction, exit the Tommy who could not abide himself, and enter another who was highly charmed therewith.