"Del has taken on a monk.

It's the latest fad." "Oh!" ejaculated Ranger.

"Simeon." "She named it after grandfather--and there _is_ a--" Arthur stopped short.

He remembered that "Simeon" was his father's father; perhaps his father might not see the joke.

"That is," he explained, "she was looking for a name, and I thought of 'simian,' naturally, and that, of course, suggested 'Simeon'-- and--" "That'll do," said Hiram, in a tone of ominous calm which his family knew was the signal that a subject must be dropped.
Now there was a quick _froufrou_ of skirts, and from the sitting room to the left darted a handsome, fair girl of nineteen, beautifully dressed in a gray summer silk with simple but effectively placed bands of pink embroidery on blouse and skirt.