"Don't! that would be a sacrilege! And you MUST remember that I told you I always adored blondes, until you told me you were brunette."
"But I didn't," said Patty, laughing. "Somehow you got the notion that I was dark, and I didn't correct it. Are you TERRIBLY disappointed in me?"
Naughty Patty raised her heavenly blue eyes and looked so like a fair, sweet flower that Kit exclaimed:
"Disappointed! You are an angel, straight from heaven!"
"Nonsense! If you talk like that, I shall run away."
"Don't run away! I'll talk any way you like, but now that I have found you I shall keep you. But I am still in depths of self-abasement. Didn't I say most unkind things about Miss Fairfield?"
"No unkinder than I did. We both jumped on her, and said she was vain and horrid."
"I never said such dreadful things! I'm sure I didn't. But, if I did, I shall spend the rest of my life making up for it. And I called you Poppycheek!"
Cameron looked at Patty's cheeks in such utter dismay that she laughed outright.
"But you know," she said, "there are pink poppies as well as scarlet.
Incidentally there are white and there are saffron yellow."