Will turned and looked out of the window. He dared not meet her eyes. Had his mother guessed his secret?
Chapter XII
Girl Talk
"What are you going to wear?" asked Fanny Tweedie, one afternoon while she and Barbara Wallace were rehearsing the scene from the "Lady of Lyons" which they, with Mrs. Blake, were to play at the club theatricals.
"What are the others, who are to play the part of men, going to wear?" questioned Barbara in reply.
"Oh, dresses fixed up in some outlandish way, but I had hoped that you—" said the amateur Pauline, impatiently.
"Would wear something out of the ordinary," Barbara interrupted, smilingly.
"Yes," replied Fanny, "Claude Melnotte should wear something—something unexpected."