"Nothing; only I hoped that maybe it had something to do with Scouts."
"With Scouts?"
"Well—with Frieda, then!" This explanation was given rather grudgingly, and with a greater degree of impatience than she was wont to use with Lily.
"Didn't you tell me you hoped she'd come to the Japanese fête, Marj?" pursued the other.
"Yes; and she did come!"
"But I didn't see her!"
"Well, then you missed her, that's all." Marjorie arose from her seat, as if to end a very distasteful conversation.
But Lily was not through.
"Marj, is it true that you gave her your pink dress?"