"How did you manage to get ready so
soon?"
"Why, just because I thought I was late, and so I hurried."
"Didn't know a girl COULD hurry,--accept my compliments." And Kit
rose and made an exaggerated bow.
"What's going on?" said Dick Perry, gaily, as he came downstairs and
paused on the landing.
"Only homage at the shrine of Beauty," returned Kit.
"Let me homage, too," said Mr. Perry, and they both bowed and
scraped, until Patty went off in a gale of laughter and said: "You
ridiculous boys, you look like popinjays! But here comes Marie; now
more homage is due."
Marie came down the steps slowly and gracefully, looking very pretty
in pale green, with tiny pink rosebuds for trimming.
"Good for you, Marie!" exclaimed her cousin. "Your dress gees with
Miss Fairfield's first-rate. You'll do!"
And then the others came, and the merry group went out to dinner.
After dinner they started at once for the country-club ball. It was
to be a very large affair, and, as Patty knew no one except their
own house party, she declared that she knew she'd be a wall-flower.
"Wall-flower, indeed!" said Kit. "Poppies don't grow on walls. They
grow right in the middle of the field, and sway and dance in the
breeze.
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