"It was lovely!" vouchsafed Dotty.
"Gorgeous!" agreed Bernice.
"Perfectly all right," Alicia averred.
"Nice enough, but very grown uppish," was Dolly's verdict.
"You stick to your taste for simpler parties?" said Mr. Forbes, looking kindly at Dolly.
"Yes, sir; I guess I'm a country girl."
"Well, I'm not," and Dotty's black eyes flashed. "I'd just as lief live in Berwick, to be sure; but I do love to visit in New York and see all the grand doings."
"And was the party grand?"
"Oh, it was, uncle," said Alicia. "It was small and it was early."
"Pooh!" cried Dolly. "We came home at half past eleven. I don't call that early!"