"
"Oh, you lovely Patty! Don't you sometimes get tired of being so
pink and white?"
"Of course I do. I wish I could be brown and dark-eyed like you."
"You'd soon wish yourself back again. Can't you combine the woodsy
party and the Happy Chaps, or whatever you call them?"
"I think we can," smiled Patty, who had already planned a Saturday
afternoon picnic, and would be glad to include Bee.
"But Bee has to learn to behave properly at formal parties," said
Marie. "I'm going to give a luncheon for her, while she's at home,
and it's going to be entirely grown-up and conventional."
"Don't want it!" and Bee scowled darkly.
"That doesn't matter. Mother says we must have it, and that you must
behave properly. You have to learn these things, you know."
"Oh, Bee will do just exactly right, I know," said Patty, as she
rose to go. "If she doesn't, we can't let her come to the picnic.
When is the luncheon, Marie?"
"We haven't quite decided yet, but I must send out the invitations
in a day or two."
Patty went home, thinking about this sister of Marie's.
"She's an awfully attractive little piece," she said to Nan, later,
"but you never can tell what she's going to do next. I think if she
had the right training, she'd be a lovely girl, but Mrs.
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