It
isn't his fault. All the boys can't be alike. And I s'pose Ken IS
the nicest of them, after all. He's so true and reliable. But I hope
to gracious he isn't going to fall in love with me. That would spoil
everything I Oh, well, I won't cross that bridge until I come to it.
And if I have come to it,--well, I won't cross it, even then. I'll
just stand stock-still, and wait. I believe there's a poem
somewhere, that says:
"'Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,--
Womanhood and childhood sweet.'
"I s'pose I HAVE left childhood behind, but I feel a long way off
from womanhood. And yet, in a couple of months I'll be twenty. That
does begin to sound aged! But I know one thing, sure and certain:
I'll wait till I AM twenty, before I think about a serious love
affair. Suitors are all very well, but I wouldn't be engaged to a
man for anything! Why, I don't suppose he'd let me dance with
anybody else, or have any fun at all! No, sir-ee, Patricia
Fairfield, you're going to have two or three years of your present
satisfactory existence, before you wear anybody's diamond ring. And
now, my Lady Gay, you'd better skip to bed, for to-morrow night you
have a theatre party in prospect, and you want to look fairly decent
for that.
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