I only did it to please you." Of course I knew that, and I tried to reassure him, reminding him that the audience would not be critical, and how grateful every one was to him for coming.
"Tell me who some of the people are, will you ?" he went on.

"Who is that tall man with the fair mustache?
He is looking at us now." "That is Charles, the eldest son," I replied; "and the shorter one, with the pleasant face, near the window, is Ralph, his younger brother." "That is a very good-looking girl he is talking to," he remarked.

"I did not catch her name." "Hush!" I said.

"That is Miss Grant, whom he is engaged to.

They have just had a little tiff, and are making it up.