If not, you must wait outside the gate while we see Miss Rodgers." "Oh, surely she wouldn't be so heartless ?" "That remains to be seen.

In a foreign country the regulations are probably very strict." The Beverleys were not the only British people on board the steamer.
Parties of tourists were going for the day's excursion, and as much English as Italian or French might be heard spoken among the passengers.
Two groups, who sat near them on deck, attracted Irene's attention.

The central figure of the one was a girl slightly taller than herself--a girl with a long, pointed nose, dark, hard, bright eyes, penciled eyebrows, beautiful teeth, and a nice color.

She was talking in a loud and affected voice, and laying down the law on many topics to several amused and smiling young naval officers who were of the party.

An elder girl, like her but with a sweeter mouth and softer eyes, seemed to be trying to restrain her, and occasionally exclaimed, "Oh, Mabel!" at some more than ordinary sally of wit; but the younger girl talked on, posing in rather whimsical attitudes, and letting her roving glance stray over the tourists close by, as if judging the effect she was making upon them.
"She's showing off," decided Irene privately.