“Well, I don’t see as she has done me any harm.”
“You don’t? Why, she has put that fool idea into your head. And you’ll let it simmer and stew there until you begin to think that maybe it would be nice to go on the stage.”
“Oh, Billee, I wouldn’t do any such a thing!”
“No, not now, but after you mull over it, and especially if she ever gets hold of you again, which pray heaven, she never will.”
“Goodness me! Little Billee, how would I look on the stage? Why, I’d be lost among all the big girls they have nowadays.”
“You’d look all right, that’s the worst of it. Now, see here, Patty, make me a solemn promise, will you? Not that you won’t go on the stage, but that if you ever think of doing so, you’ll tell me first. Will you promise me that?”
And Patty promised.
CHAPTER IX
THE “SHOWER”
The announcement party was great fun. In every way it was made to seem like a formal party and not just the gathering of the clans.