“Now the bill, Cathalina,” suggested Pauline. “Everything has to be paid for, you know.”
“The bill is—just nothing,” announced Cathalina.
Loud protests began at once.
“See here, Cathalina, that simply can not be,” said Lilian. “We could not think of allowing you to meet such a bill as this must be, and you must not ask us to.”
“I should think not!” exclaimed Eloise.
Cathalina was smiling during all this. “Now, girls, if you will only give me a chance to tell you about it,—”
“Hear what she has to say,” said Betty, who was the only one that knew what Cathalina wanted.
“All right, Cathalina, speak up or else forever hold your peace,” said Isabel.
“Now of course, girls, having made the design, you know, I did want it worked out exactly as I wanted it. You don’t blame me, do you?”
“Not a bit of it.”