They peppered him with stale jokes, they even made a few new ones and threw at him.

They hurled at him all the private family jokes belonging to our set, and which must have been perfectly unintelligible to him.

And then, unable to stand their brutal jibes any longer, he turned round on them, and they saw his face! I was glad to notice that they had sufficient decency left in them to look very foolish.

They explained to him that they had thought he was some one they knew.

They said they hoped he would not deem them capable of so insulting any one except a personal friend of their own.
[Picture: Bathing] Of course their having mistaken him for a friend excused it.