Patty's Motor Car

by Carolyn Wells

KATHARINE CARLETON

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CONTENTS

		CHAPTER		PAGE
I		Afternoon Tea		[9]
II		An Able Helper		[24]
III		A Lecture		[40]
IV		The Hundredth Question		[52]
V		A Summer Home		[66]
VI		The Award		[81]
VII		A Neighbour		[97]
VIII		Swift Camilla		[110]
IX		Mona at Home		[124]
X		The Courtesy of the Road		[137]
XI		The First Arrivals		[152]
XII		A Moonlight Ride		[165]
XIII		Patty’s Ingenuity		[177]
XIV		A Birthday Breakfast		[190]
XV		A Morning Swim		[203]
XVI		A Change of Partners		[216]
XVII		A Dinner and a Dance		[229]
XVIII		Mona Interferes		[242]
XIX		Philip’s Picnic		[254]
XX		A Narrow Escape		[267]

[Transcriber’s Notes] can be found at the end of this eBook.

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CHAPTER I

AFTERNOON TEA

Patty was curled up in her favourite big easy-chair in her own study.

Though called a study, because it had been used as such during her schooldays, the pretty room was really more like a boudoir. Her desk was still there, but was now filled with programmes, friendly letters, and social correspondence instead of school themes or problems. The general colouring of the room was green, but the sash curtains of thin yellow silk, and the heap of yellow sofa cushions, did much to lighten the effect, and gave the room a sunshiny air, even on a dull day. The couch, and the two big, soft, cuddly chairs were upholstered in yellow-flowered chintz, and on the pale green walls hung Patty’s favourite pictures, and many curios or souvenirs of her year spent abroad.