It meant noise, which was always welcome in any form.
"Will you play, Miss Erroll ?" inquired Selwyn.
Miss Erroll would play.
"Why do you always call her 'Miss Erroll' ?" asked Billy.

"Why don't you say 'Eileen' ?" Selwyn laughed.

"I don't know, Billy; ask her; perhaps she knows." Eileen laughed, too, delicately embarrassed and aware of his teasing smile.

But Drina, always impressed by formality, said: "Uncle Philip isn't Eileen's uncle.

People who are not relations say _Miss and Mrs_." "Are faver and muvver relations ?" asked Josephine timidly.
"Y-es--no!--I don't know," admitted Drina; "_are_ they, Eileen ?" "Why, yes--that is--that is to say--" And turning to Selwyn: "What dreadful questions.