[Penny Plain by Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)]@TWC D-Link book
Penny Plain

CHAPTER XV
10/31

My name given me by my godmother and godfathers is--Quintin Reginald Fuerbras." "Gosh, Maggie!" ejaculated Jock.

"Earls in the streets of Cork!" "I knew," said Jean, "that it would be something very twopence-coloured." "It's not, I grant, such a jolly name as yours," said Lord Bidborough--"Jean Jardine." "Oh, mine is Penny-plain," said Jean hurriedly.
"Must we always call you Lord ?" Mhor asked.
"Of course you must," Jean said.

"Really, Mhor, you and Jock are sometimes very stupid." "Indeed you must not," said Lord Bidborough.

"Forgive me, Miss Jean, if I am undermining your authority, but, really, one must have some say in what one is to be called.

Why not call me Biddy ?" "That might be too familiar," said Jock.


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