"
"Your father, Louise, is a fool!" was the lady's tart reply.
"As he is your brother as well as my father," Louise told her coldly, "I
presume you feel you have a right to call him what you please. But I
assure you, Aunt Euphemia, it does not please me to hear you do so."
"You are a very obstinate girl!"
"That attribute of my character I fancy I inherit from daddy-professor's
side of the family," the girl returned bluntly.
"I shall be shamed to death! I must accept the Perritons' invitation. I
already have accepted it. They will think you a very queer girl, to say
the least."
"I am," her niece told her, the gray eyes smiling again, for Louise was
soon over her wrath. "Even daddy-prof says that."
"Because of his taking you all over the world with him as he did. I only
wonder he did not insist upon your going on this present horrid cruise.
"No. I have begun to like my comfort too well," and now Louise laughed
outright. "A mark of oncoming age, perhaps."
"You are a most unpleasant young woman, Louise.
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