"Or stately enough," added Pauline Hayes.
"Or self-possessed enough," supplemented Lizzie Harrowgate.
"Or imperious enough," said Clarissa Parks.
"She would always be abdicating in favor of some one who had an equal right to it," laughed Pauline Hayes.
"Oh, Miss West, who was that lovely little creature with you in Sunday school Sunday?" asked Miss Denyse. "She carries herself like a little princess."
"She is just the one not to do it," replied Miss Parks.
"What do you mean?" inquired Miss Harrowgate before Marjorie could speak.
"I mean," she began, laying a bunch of white grapes in Marjorie's fingers, "that her name is Holmes."
"Doesn't that belong to the royal line?" asked Pauline, lightly.
"It belongs to the line of thieves."