After a time Ruth left the group at the piano and joined Jed and her daughter by the window.

Captain Hunniwell came a few minutes later.
"Make a good-lookin' couple, don't they ?" he whispered, bending down, and with a jerk of his head in the direction of the musicians.

"Your brother's a fine-lookin' young chap, Mrs.
Armstrong.

And he acts as well as he looks.

Don't know when I've taken such a shine to a young feller as I have to him.