How did you like it ?" "It's a splendid picture.

I'm not sure it will interest others as much as ourselves, yet the people present seemed to like it." "Well it was their last chance to observe my desperate peril and my heroic rescue," said the boy.

"The picture will not be shown after to-night." "Why not ?" they asked, in surprise.
"I bought the thing this afternoon.

It didn't seem to me quite modest to exploit our little adventure in public." This was a new phase of the strange boy's character and the girls did not know whether to approve it or not.
"It must have cost you something!" remarked Flo, the irrepressible.
"Besides, how could you do it while you were asleep ?" "Why, I wakened long enough to use the telephone," he replied with a smile.

"There are more wonderful inventions in the world than motion pictures, you know." "But you like motion pictures, don't you ?" asked Maud, wondering why he had suppressed the film in question.
"Very much.