"They're ill bred and they
don't mind, and there's nobody who wants to make 'em mind except people
who have no authority to do it."
"Why is it?" inquired Allison, secretly amused.
"Because spanking has gone out of fashion," she answered, in all
seriousness. "It takes so much longer for moral suasion to work. Romie
and I never had any 'moral suasion,'--we were brought up right."
Juliet's tone indicated a deep filial respect for her departed parents
and there was a faraway look in her blue eyes which filled Allison with
tender pity.
"You must be lonely sometimes," he said, kindly.
"Lonely?" repeated Juliet in astonishment; "why, how could I ever be
lonely with Romie?"
"Of course you couldn't be lonely when he was there, but you must miss
him when he's away from you."
"He's never away," she answered, with a toss of her curly head. "We're
most always together, unless he goes to town--or up to your house," she
added, as an afterthought.
Allison was about to say that Romeo had never been there before, but
wisely kept silent.
"Twins are the most related of anybody," Juliet went on.
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