“I think it would be horrid, winning it away from everyone else!” Blue Bonnet declared. “And if one didn’t win—that would be horrid too.”
“But,” Sarah said slowly, “even if one doesn’t win the prize, won’t it be better, for one’s self, I mean, to know one has tried?”
“It is better to have tried and lost,
Than never tried at all.”
Kitty chanted.
Sarah looked grave; “I don’t think you should parody those lines, Kitty!”
Kitty wrinkled up her pert little nose. “Don’t you, Sallykins? Then I won’t—until the next time they come in handy.”
“Kitty, be good!” Ruth urged.
“‘And let who will, be clever,’” Debby added. “Has anyone heard how Mademoiselle is? Will she be able to come to-day?”
“She’s worse!” Ruth said, “I asked this morning.”