He was embarrassed to find Colonel Kent and Allison there, though the
younger man's tact speedily set him at ease again, and enabled him to
offer Isabel the pan of fudges with unwonted grace of manner. Then he
went over to Madame Bernard.
"Juliet couldn't come to-night," he said, "but here's our card."
Madame could not repress a smile as she read "The Crosby Twins" engraved
in the fashionable script of the moment. "How very original," she said,
kindly. "Nobody but you and Juliet would have thought of it."
"Jule thought of it," he replied, with evident pride. "She's more up on
etiquette than I am."
"If it's proper for husband and wife to have their names engraved on the
same card," Madame went on, "it must be all right for twins."
"It's more proper," Romeo returned, "because nobody is so much related
as twins are. Husband and wife are only relatives by marriage."
Colonel Kent laughed appreciatively. "Good! May I have some of Miss
Isabel's candy?"
Isabel, convulsed with secret mirth, informally passed the pan, and only
Romeo refused. "I can have 'em any time," he said, generously.
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