"To help us choose?" Pauline asked, with a laugh.
But at the present moment, her small sister was quite impervious to sarcasm. "I think I'll have this," she pointed to a white ground, closely sprinkled with vivid green dots.
"Carrots and greens!" Pauline declared, glancing at her sister's red curls. "You'd look like an animated boiled dinner! If you please, who said anything about your choosing?"
"You look ever so nice in all white, Patty," Hilary said hastily.
"Have you and Paul chosen all white?"
"N-no."
"Then I shan't!" She looked up quickly, her blue eyes very persuasive.
"I don't very often have a brand new, just-out-of-the-store dress, do
I?"
Pauline laughed. "Only don't let it be the green then. Good, here's mother, at last!"
"Mummy, is blue or green better?" Patience demanded.
Mrs. Shaw examined and duly admired the camera, and decided in favor of a blue dot; then she said, "Mrs. Boyd is down-stairs, Hilary."