"Let me see it."
With some hesitance I placed the slipper in her hand. She looked at it sharply.
"Good gracious!"
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"Why, this slipper has never been worn at all. It is brand new!" She was greatly bewildered.
"I know it," I replied; "I brought it myself."
Then how she laughed! And when I asked her to do it again she did, even more heartily than before.
"You will always be the same,"—passing the slipper back to me.
"No, I want to be just a little different from now on,"—inscrutably.
She gave me an indescribable glance.