Patty outlined the conversation.
"And he's going to take me to the circus next Wednesday," she ended, "to see the elephunts!"
"The Dowager will never let you go," objected Harriet.
"Oh, yes, she will!" said Patty. "It's perfectly proper to go to the circus with your uncle—'specially in vacation. We've got it all planned. I'm to go into town with Waddy. I heard her say she had an appointment at the dentist's—and he'll be at the station with a hansom—"
"More likely a baby carriage," Kid put in quickly.
"Miss Wadsworth will never take you into town in those clothes," Harriet objected.
Patty hugged her knees and rocked back and forth, while her dimples came and went.
"I think," she said, "that the next time I'll give him an entirely different kind of a sensation."
And she did.
Anticipatory of the coming event, she sent her suit to the tailor's and had him lengthen the hem of the skirt two inches. She spent an entire morning retrimming her hat along more mature lines, and she purchased a veil—with spots! She also spent twenty-five cents for hairpins, and did up her hair on the top of her head. She wore Kid McCoy's Christmas furs and Harriet's bracelet watch; and, as she set off with a somewhat bewildered Miss Wadsworth, they assured her that she looked old.