“No you won't—I was going to take them.”
“I should like to know what right you have to them more than I.”
“You promised not to interfere with me, and you have done nothing else. You did nothing at the ball but ask him for dances.”
“That's a lie! I didn't ask him for a dance. You went off to hide; no one saw anything of you all the evening.”
“You mean to say you didn't promise?”
“I never promised anything; if I did I should keep my promise. I am not like you. I want a pair of sheets, and I mean to have these.”
“They are too big for your bed.”
Sally seized the sheet and strove to drag it from Maggie, who, although the weaker, held her own bravely for some time. Finding her strength failing her, she loosed her hold, letting her sister fall against the wall, and taking up the pillow she launched it with her full force. “If you want what he slept in, you can have it all.”
“I'll give it to you, my lady,” cried the bully, making a rush round the bed, but Maggie fled through the dressing-room, shutting the door behind her, and locked herself into her room.