“I know, but Alice is so crazy about her: Alice is my sister,” she explained.
“My sister is just as crazy about her.”
“So you’ve got a sister? I thought you had, and I guessed her name was Matilda Ann.”
“Matilda Ann! What an awful name! What made you think her name was Matilda Ann?”
“I don’t know. It just came into my head that her name was Matilda Ann.”
“Well, it isn’t.”
“Alice guessed it was Fanny,” Peggy hastened to add, hoping that the credit of the family might be restored.
“It isn’t Fanny either. You could guess and guess and you’d never guess it. It’s such an unusual name.”
Peggy was full of interest. She guessed several uncommon names, but they were all of them wrong.
“What letter does it begin with?” she asked finally.