I only took a glass at the club occasionally when the other men were drinking, and sometimes when I went to banquets, class banquets, you know, and dinners--" Now the girl had never heard of class banquets, but to take a glass occasionally when the other men were drinking was what her brothers did; and so she sighed, and said: "Yes, you may promise, but I know you won't keep it.

Father promised too; but, when he got with the other men, it did no good.

Men are all alike." "But I'm not," he insisted stoutly.

"I tell you I'm not.

I don't drink, and I won't drink.