"You are trying to improve me," I said suspiciously.
"But they are such good things," went on Adela earnestly. "They really do help to make you beautiful——"
"I am beautiful."
"Well, much more beautiful, and strong——"
"Are you being simply as tactful as you can be?"
"—and graceful."
"It isn't as though you were actually a relation," I protested.
Adela continued, full of her idea.
"It would do you so much good, you know. Would you promise me to use it every day if I sent you mine?"
"Why don't you want yours any more? Are you perfect now?"