"Shall I change my frock, Adele, or keep on this toggery for
dinner?" said Patty.
"Oh, keep that on. You may as well be Queen of May as long as you
can."
So Patty kept on her pretty, picturesque costume, and when dinner
time came she made up her mind to ask Adele to seat her next to
Farnsworth. But as the company paired off to go to dinner Big Bill
was nowhere visible.
"Where's Mr. Farnsworth?" asked Patty, casually, of Jim Kenerley.
"Oh, he's gone. We expected him to stay the week-end, but he said he
was due at another country house party, farther on somewhere, and he
couldn't even stay for dinner."
Patty was sorry she had acted so rude to Bill, and sorry that he had
gone. "But," she said to herself, by way of extenuation, "I didn't
want to dance with anybody who asked me to because his hostess
commanded him! He never even said he wanted to dance with me
himself, but only that Adele said he must. But I do think he was
mean to go away without saying good-bye to me!"
However, it was not Patty's nature to let her mind dwell on a
disappointment, and she promptly proceeded to forget all about Mr.
Farnsworth, and to turn her mind to her present partner. This
happened to be Kit Cameron, and as he was in his gayest mood she
responded and their conversation was of the merriest sort.
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