“Oh, you do!”
Nancy was silent, and Cora calmed down.
“Then you’ll go out for the evening?” she asked, at last.
“Gladly,” said Nancy.
“Mabel and Hilary say you can stay in 38.”
“Very well.”
“And of course you are not going to be mean about your share of the goodies?” asked Cora, slily.
Nancy wanted to say that it seemed to her all the goodies were hers. But she only tossed Cora the key of her closet.
“I hope you’ll have a good time,” she said, in a low voice. “But if I were you, Cora, and had treated anybody as meanly as you have me, I could never have a good time.”
“Pooh!” replied Cora, insolently. Such considerations made no impression on her. She only thought that Nancy was “too easy for anything,” and laughed and joked about her to Grace Montgomery.