To Keith's disgust, he found that the partner whom he had bid for energetically, thinking it was Sally Fairfax, was only his brother Malcolm, and Malcolm teased him all evening by quoting aloud some of the complimentary speeches Keith had whispered to him under cover of their disguises.
"Oh, gracious!" roared Malcolm.

"It was _too_ funny; Keith, fanning me with one of those stubby little stocking-covered fins of his, and making complimentary speeches about my eyes.

Told me he would know them anywhere.

And he spouted poetry, he did," added Malcolm, doubling up with another laugh.

"Oh, it was _too_ good! Hi, Buddy," chucking Keith under the chin, "are you of the same opinion still?
Ain't they pretty, 'mine eyes so blue and tender ?'" "Aw, hush!" growled Keith, in a shamefaced sort of way, adding, in a savage undertone, "I'll make _black_ eyes of 'em if you don't stop." That was not the only odd assortment of partners, for Miss Allison had bid for plump little Mrs.Cassidy, thinking it was one of the boys in her Sunday school class; and one little maid of seven found that an old bachelor uncle had fallen to her lot.
"You see we made a wholesale affair of it," said Miss Allison to Eugenia.