"
Apparently it would, and the two girls discussed the Cleopatra
costume in all its details, until the little clock on the
dressing-table held its two hands straight up in shocked surprise.
After Mona left her, Patty gave herself a scolding. It was a habit
of hers, when bothered, to sit down in front of a mirror and "have
it out with herself" as she expressed it.
"Patty Fairfield," she said to the disturbed looking reflection
that confronted her, "you're a silly, childish old thing to feel
disappointed because you weren't chosen to be Spirit of the Sea!
And you're a mean-spirited, ill-tempered GOOSE to feel as you do,
because Daisy Dow has that part. She'll be awfully pretty in it,
and Guy Martin had a perfect right to choose her, and she had a
perfect right to change her mind and say she'd take it, even if
she HAD told you she didn't want it! Now, Miss, what have you to
say for yourself? Nothing? I thought so. You're vain and conceited
and silly, if you think that you'd be a better Spirit of the Sea
than Daisy, and you show a very small and disagreeable nature when
you take it so to heart. Now, WILL you brace up and forget it?"
And so practical and just was Patty's true nature that she smiled
at herself, and agreed to her own remarks.
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