“Is–is that all true?” she whispered to Pratt.
“Is what all true?” he asked, rather blankly.
“That there have been such improvements and changes here in so few years?”
“You bet!” exclaimed Pratt, with emphasis.
“Well–re’lly–it’s quite wonderful,” admitted Sue, slowly. “I had no idea it was like that!”
“So you think better of our ‘crude civilization,’ do you?” laughed one of her girl friends.
“Why–why, it is quite surprising,” said Sue, again, and still quite breathless.
“And what do you think of our Frances?” demanded Mrs. Bill Edwards, proudly. “There’s nobody in Boston’s Back Bay, even, who could do better than she?”
And Sue Latrop was–for the time being, at least–completely silenced.