"There's a lovely old park here. Everything is old. There are the oldest women you ever saw. One of them shook hands with Lafayette."
"And I've shaken hands with ever so many people and not a Lafayette or a Washington among them," declared Roxy most lugubriously.
"Now look, girls, would you hang this picture here?"
"I think it's rather dark. Bring it over here."
"Yes, that's better. No one asks Miss Grant to sit down."
"'No stars were shining in the sky—
There were no stars to shine.'
No chairs were idly standing round,
In schools they never do abound,"
laughed Daisy Bell. "Miss Grant, sit on the bed. It won't break down."
"Oh, I don't mind," returned Helen.
"What I am to do with all these things!" moaned Daisy, glancing helplessly about.
"Miss Grant has begun sensibly. She did not cart a lot of truck away from home."