Better for Kara perhaps that the general effect of the tableau was what was desired and not a too apparent view of details!
This, however, was not true concerning the little group of children who drew the chariot.
So startling was Lucy Martin’s beauty that not only the Girl Scouts and their older friends discussed it among themselves, the Boy Scouts, not so apt to notice a little girl’s appearance, also spoke of it to one another privately.
Fortunately Lucy, in spite of her wilfulness, was not self-conscious.
To-day evidently she was thinking not of herself but of Katherine Moore and Billy, her former friends from the Gray House on the Hill.
A blond Cupid grown slightly older and thinner, Billy Duncan appeared, with his blond hair and large childish blue eyes and his somewhat expressionless face.
Either the performance of the Greek tableaux or the presence of the little girl who had so dominated him during the years they had spent together at the Gray House made Billy dazed and speechless.
There was no need, however, that he should use any intelligence save to do what Lucy commanded.
Her dark eyes sparkled with a brilliant excitement, her rose cheeks glowed. The stiff aureole of her dark hair made a striking contrast to the whiteness of her childish costume.
The other two children were acquaintances of Lucy’s from the Gray House and equally ready to do her bidding.