You have reason to be proud of your namesake." "I have always been that," declared William, with just a touch of hauteur.
"Tell us about her," begged Bertram.

"You remember I said that we wished we did know her." Calderwell smiled.
"I don't believe, after all, that you do know much about her," he began musingly.

"Billy is not one who talks much of herself, I fancy, in her letters." William frowned.

This time there was more than a touch of hauteur in his voice.
"MISS NEILSON is not one to show vanity anywhere," he said, with suggestive emphasis on the name.
"Indeed she isn't," agreed Calderwell, heartily.

"She is a fine girl--quite one of the finest I know, in fact." There was an uncomfortable silence.