Oh, I looked out for every point, and you're
not angry with me, are you, Princess?"
He was so wheedlesome and so boyish in his enjoyment of the joke,
that Patty hadn't the heart to scold him, nor was she sure she had
any reason to do so.
"I admit it," she said, "you certainly did play a practical joke on
me successfully, though I didn't think you could. You have won the
wager, and I shall of course pay my debt. But just now, I'm
interested in the fact that we're going home. And yet," she added,
turning to her hostess, "isn't it funny? Now that we CAN go, I don't
want to go! Now it seems like a house party again."
Patty beamed around on them all, and seemed a different girl from
the Patty of the last twenty-four hours.
"You were a brick!" said Kenneth, "through it all. I know how you
suffered, but you bravely forgot yourself in trying to make it
pleasant for the others."
"Nonsense! I acted like a pig! A horrid, round, fat pig! But, truly,
it was the most different sensation to be quarantined here or to be
visiting here. I wouldn't believe, if I hadn't tried it, what a
difference there is! Oh, it's just lovely here, now!" and Patty
executed a little fancy dance, singing a merry little song to it.
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