. "No, I do
assure you! I do not onderstand vy you should say so."

"Oh, we don't profess to be old FRIENDS, Lord Tulliwuddle! After all,
there is no reason why you shouldn't turn your back on us as soon as you
see a newer--and more amusing--ACQUAINTANCE."

"But I have not turned my back!"

"We saw nothing else all yesterday."

"Ah, Mees Gallosh, zat is not true! Often did I look at you!"

"Did you? I had forgotten. One doesn't treasure every glance, you know."

The Baron tugged at his mustache and frowned.

"She vill not do for Tollyvoddle," he said to himself.

But the next instant a glance from Eva's brilliant eyes--a glance
so reproachful, so appealing, and so stimulating, that there was no
resisting it--diverted his reflections into quite another channel.

"Vat can I do to prove zat I am so friendly as ever?" he exclaimed.

"So FRIENDLY?" she repeated, with an innocently meditative air.

"So vary parteecularly friendly!"

Her air relented a little--just enough, in fact, to make him ardently
desire to see it relent still further.

"You promise things to me, and then do them for other people's benefit."

The Baron eagerly demanded a fuller statement of this abominable charge.

"Well," she said, "you told me twenty times you would show me something
really Highland--that you'd kill a deer by torchlight, or hold a
gathering of the clans upon the castle lawn. All sorts of things you
offered to do for me, and the only thing you have done has been for the
sake of your NEW friends! You gave THEM a procession and a dance."

"But you did see it too!" he interrupted eagerly.

"As part of your procession," she retorted scornfully. "We felt much
obliged to you--especially as you were so attentive to us afterwards!"

"I did not mean to leave you," exclaimed the Baron weakly. "It was jost
zat Miss Maddison----"

"I am not interested in Miss Maddison. No doubt she is very charming;
but, really, she doesn't interest me at all. You were unavoidably
prevented from talking to us--that is quite sufficient for me. I excuse
you, Lord Tulliwuddle. Only, please, don't make me any more promises."

"Eva! Ach, I most say 'Eva' jost vunce more! I am going to leave my
castle, to leave you, and say good-by."

She started and looked quickly at him.

"Bot before I go I shall keep my promise! Ve shall have ze pipers, and
ze kilts, and ze dancing, and toss ze caber, and fling ze hammer, and it
shall be on ze castle lawn, and