He was by no means indifferent to girls; several little damsels who attended St.Martin's Church had at one time or another been his load-stars for a while; but he was an aristocrat at heart, and held himself infinitely above a girl like Miss Euphronia.
Ferdy Wickersham had no such motives for abstaining from a flirtation with the young girl as those which restrained Rhodes and Keith.
Euphronia had not at first taken much notice of him.

She had been inclined to regard Ferdy Wickersham with some disfavor as a Yankee; but when the other two failed her, Wickersham fell heir to her blandishments.

Her indifference to him had piqued him and awakened an interest which possibly he might not otherwise have felt.

He had seen much of the world for a youngster, and could make a good show with what he knew.

He could play on the piano, and though the aged instrument which the old countryman had got at second-hand for his granddaughter gave forth sounds which might have come from a tinkling cymbal, yet Ferdy played with a certain dash and could bring from it tunes which the girl thought very fine.