Patty—Bride

BY CAROLYN WELLS
Author of The TWO LITTLE WOMEN Series The MARJORIE Books etc.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers NEW YORK
Copyright, 1918 By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
TO ONE OF THE DEAREST LITTLE GIRLS IN THE WORLD, BARBARA BUEHLER, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
“I can’t stand it, Patty, I simply can’t stand it!”
“But you’ll have to, Phil, dear. I’m engaged to Little Billee, and some day I’m going to marry him. And that’s all there is about it.”
“Oh, no, Patty, that isn’t all about it. I’m not going to give you up so easily. You don’t know how I care for you. You’ve no idea what a determined chap I can be,——”
“Now, stop, Phil. You know you promised that we should be friends and nothing more. You promised not to ask for more than my friendship—didn’t you, now?”
“I did but that was only so you’d stay friendly with me, and I thought,—forgive the egotism,—I thought I could yet win your love. Patty, you don’t care such a lot for Farnsworth, do you, now?”
“Indeed I do, Phil. Why, do you suppose I’d be engaged to him if I didn’t love him more than anybody in all the world? Of course I wouldn’t!”