It
isn't fair for YOU to comment on MY tow-head!"
"That's so, Pattikins; and I take it all back," for Mr. Fairfield
could never resist his pretty daughter's cajolery. "You are a pretty
little doll-faced thing, and I expect I'll have to forgive your very
reprehensible behaviour."
"I'm NOT a doll-face," said Patty, pouting; "I shan't let you go
until you take THAT back."
As Patty had her arms tightly round her father's neck, he considered
it the better part of valour to take back his words. "All right," he
said, "rather than be garroted,--I retract! You're a beautiful and
dignified lady, and your notions of convention and etiquette are
above reproach."
"They're above YOUR reproaches, anyhow," returned Patty, saucily,
and then she ran away to her own room.
CHAPTER IV
A PERFECTLY GOOD JOKE
Patty decided to do nothing in the matter of meeting Kit Cameron.
She dearly loved a joke, and this seemed to her a good one. But she
thought it would spoil it, if she made any move in the game herself.
So she bided her time, and it was perhaps a week later that Marie
Homer came to call on her.
As Marie hadn't the slightest notion that Patty was the girl her
cousin had in mind, the subject was not mentioned until just before
Marie left, when she asked Patty if she would come to her home the
next week to a little musicale.
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