Patricia jerked the button from the buttonhole, and continued:
"How do you s'pose I like to have you act so queer, and then have the girls call you my 'chum'?"
Arabella instead of replying to the question remarked:
"And the fringe on this shawl has caught on a hook on my dress so I can't get it off."
Patricia's eyes were blazing. She was so angry that she hardly knew what she was saying.
"The idea! You had on two coats and a sweater, and as if that wasn't enough for any one girl to wear you went after two shawls. When you got all those duds on you looked as big as an elegant!"
"A what!" gasped Arabella.
"I'm too tired to say it over again," said Patricia, who now knew that she had made a funny error.
"But," persisted Arabella, "you said I looked as—"
It was no use to talk to the walls, and Patricia had rushed from the room, banging the door behind her.