'Poor man! it was a great pity he did not come last year!' said
Louis.

'I am glad I have no temptation to bend to his will,' returned James.

'Ha! I like the true core of the quarrel to display itself.'

'Fitzjocelyn, you do not mean that you do not fully approve of the
course I have taken!'

'Extremely magnanimous, but not quite unprecedented. Witness St.
Ronan's Well, where the younger Scrogie abjures the name of Mowbray.'

'Pshaw! Louis, can't you understand? Frost is a glorious name to
me, recording my grandmother's noble exertions on our behalf, but I
can imagine it to be hateful to him, recalling the neglect that made
her slaving necessary.'

'For which amiable reason you insist on obtruding it. Pray, are the
houses henceforth to be Frost Terrace or Arctic Row?'

'Are you come to laugh or to remonstrate?' exclaimed James, stopping.

'Oh! you want to put on your armour! Certainly, I should never tell
if I were come to remonstrate, nor should I venture in such a case--'

'Then you are come to approve,' said Isabel. I knew it!'

'Little you two care--each of you sure of an admiring double.'