“I think Claribel is a lovely name!” said Lily, after a pause. “Don’t you?”
“No!” replied Johnny, “it’s too girly.”
“But baby is a girl!”
“I don’t care. She needn’t have such a very girly name. How do you like Ellen?”
“Oh, Johnny! why, everybody’s named Ellen. We don’t want her to be just like everybody. Now Seraphina is not common.”
“I should hope not. I should need a mouth a yard wide to say it. What do you think of Bessie?”
“Oh, Bessie is very well, only—well, I should be always thinking of Bessie Jones, and you know she isn’t very nice. I’ll tell you what, Johnny! suppose we call her Vesta Geneva, after the girl Papa told us about yesterday.”
“Lily, you are a perfect silly! Why, I wouldn’t be seen with a sister called that! I think Polly is a nice, jolly kind of name.”
“Well, I don’t.”
“You needn’t get mad if you don’t. Cross-patch!”