“He might and he might not,” Basil Banks answered. “He certainly won’t be pleased when he’s got everythin’ planned and then finds himself short-handed, so to speak.”
“Oh, come on!” Kitty pleaded. “Be a sport and come with us! You’re ever so pretty and in Milly’s get-up no one will guess it’s not her. Why should they?”
“That’s true enough,” Basil Banks agreed. “And I think I should explain, Miss Colwyn, that my three girls wear wigs so they really do look alike.”
He smiled before he added,
“I thought when I was planning the act I’d call it ‘Basil Banks and the Three Sisters’, then someone suggested ‘Belles’ would fit in better with my name.”
“Are you saying that your girls are all dressed alike?” Donela asked.
“Oh, they have several changes,” Basil Banks replied. “I don’t suppose by a
