"Now, see if you can behave yourselves," he advised, in the tone a father would have used toward two refractory boys.

"You have been acting boorishly and disgracefully all evening.

It was you who directed me wrong, to-day.
You have not, at any time since I first met you, acted like gentlemen; I should be sorry to think this country held many such brainless louts." He turned inquiringly toward Charming Billy and nodded his head toward the door.

Billy, stooping unsteadily for his hat which he discovered under his feet, followed him meekly out..