Show the real people elizabeth had never noticed how plain and provincial her family were until young haddon began calling on her the contrast between his polished courtesy and her fathers bluff good nature was positively painful and she began to wish that her father had a club to go to evenings and that her mother wouldn t always come into the parlor and discuss the weather with mr haddon As tor for her boisterous brother jack she could almost find it in her heart to regret that be he was not lot many miles away mother alother she said one evening when she had reason to expect young haddon wont won t you please make jack go to bed early tonight 9 make jack go to bed early why bess I 1 dont don t tell jack when to go to bed any more he ile a s too old for that he ile isn t too old to drink lemonade and eat cookies as it if he had never seen evening refreshments before complained elizabeth he ile acted like a big and a wild indian the other night he ile stamped around and whis tied so loud that we t hear ourselves talk and he used the corn com monest slang mother I 1 don t know what mr mir haddon thinks of him 4 oh I 1 guess he knows a rollicking boy when he sees one said mrs day comfortably mother elizabeth hesitated a mo anent I 1 wish you wouldn t wear Y your our apron when you come into the parlor evenings why not bess dess well it looks so bourgeois what a that Z why you know sort of common well that funny I 1 always feel real dressed up when I 1 have on one of my pretty aprons dut but I 1 won wont t wear an apron it ff you don 1 t want me to that a a dear said elizabeth gratefully and mother do you think you could coax father to wear his coat when mr haddon Is here it looks just dreadful for a man to go around the house with his coat off but your father likes to be comfort able and I 1 don t think he looks a bit untidy without his coat elizabeth sighed deeply just then the door bell beh rang eager to get there a before her brother she ran and open ed the door herself say youre you re getting awfully acx lous arent you bess jack called elizabeth in her endeavor to appear unconscious of this thrust greeted her visitor with what she knew was stilt ed politeness they had not been set tied in the parlor two minutes before her mother appeared she sh spoke pleasantly to young haddon asked him it if he dian didn t think the evenings were getting cool and then glancing down at her apron precipitately left the room A moment later she return ed consciously smoothing out the front of her skirt from which she had just removed her apron elizabeth a s annoyance at this was not lessened when jack bobbed in and asked loudly what time you going to 4 have the handout bess im going down to bud brown browns s but it if there a to be a feed here III beat it back oh jack I 1 wish you d began elizabeth hun run on dear said jacks jack a mother III save you something it we have any thing to eat oh there a father mrs days face beamed with welcome tor for an instant and then suddenly clouded over father dont don t you think you ought to have on your coat it its a a lit tie chilly chilly gammon mother you know I 1 never wear my coat in the house say haddon these women are al ways fussing at their men folks some day you 11 know what it Is to have a wife worrying about you elizabeth a face turned scarlet but haddon laughed and said I 1 gainly hope so now father come out in the din ing room I 1 want to show you some thing mrs day smiled at her own tact and led her husband away to be gently lectured on the subject ol 01 wearing a coat do you know said haddon to ellz eliz abeth as soon as they were alone I 1 think you are about the most fortu nate girl in the world why was the astonished query because you re surrounded by such whole relatives relative i t f feel like em bracing your sweet little mother when I 1 see her wearing that crisp white apron it takes me back to the time I 1 had a mother up in maine who wore worn white aprons and your father how hearty and kind he Is I 1 tell you in these days of affectation its a eriv liege lege to meet people like mr air and mrs day W what hat abo about ut jack asked elizabeth hesitatingly he hes a an all round boy the kind that makes the real man it a the real people who count I 1 fear murmured elizabeth that I 1 im in the only one in the famil isn t quite real haddon laughed you re real enough to suit me he answered |