CHORUS: "She don't know what it means. She don't know what it means."
"She means doe! The doe in the zoo at Forest Park. Hauh-hauh—her favorite name is Doe."
"Zoe," repeated Lilly, her eyes in a trance and lakes of reflected vision. "Zoe—it means—it means something—something full of life. Life—free—to me Zoe means free! Life!"
CHAPTER IV
When Lilly was fourteen she graduated from grade school, second in her class.
"It's an outrage," said Mrs. Becker. "Miss Lare always did pick on the child."
"I'd rather have been last than second," said Lilly, trying to keep firm a lip that would tremble.
"Never mind, Lilly, you'll have the prettiest graduation dress of them all. I've got Katy Stutz engaged for three days in the house. A girl don't have to be so smart."
"I'd rather have the valedictory address than—clothes," still very uncertain of lip.
"Of course. That is because for a child you certainly have crazy ideas. Why don't you nag your father a little with what you've been nagging me all week?"