“Just thinking it over, Eloise,” replied Lilian. “What invitations did you girls receive?”
“Helen and I got both of them, but Pauline and Juliet only had invitations from the Whittiers. It was funny, because they invited us all to their party, you know.”
“You never can tell why girls do things, or don’t do ’em,” remarked Betty.
“Why, Betty, how can you so malign your sex!”
“‘Varium et mutabile semper femina,’” quoted Hilary. “But Vergil must have had some unfortunate love affair if he thought woman a ‘fickle and changeable thing.’”
“Women do change their minds,” said Betty, “but that is much better when you find you were wrong than to stick to your old first opinion, right or wrong. Mother had a funny experience with a dentist who wanted to pull a tooth which she wanted to save. She had him almost persuaded, she thought, but he said, ‘You wouldn’t want me to go back on what I said I wouldn’t do, would you?’ ‘Not for the world,’ said she, and went to another dentist who saved the tooth all right.”
“Do you consider him an example of his sex?” said Lilian with a laugh.
“No, not really, I guess. Still, I don’t know but you’d find as many stubborn men as fickle women.”
“I don’t think you can put them all in a class like that,” observed Eloise. “I know stubborn girls and fickle boys.”
“Let’s hurry up and decide on the society affairs, and leave our wise considerations about the human race till another time.”