It was the action of a child.

Guadalupe followed the example of her sister, but evidently with a degree of reserve.

What, then, should have caused this difference in their manner?
In the next moment we were ascending the stairway.
"Lucky dog!" growled the major.

"Take a ducking myself for that." "Both beautiful, by Jove!" said Clayley; "but of all the women I ever saw, give me `Mary of the Light'!".