"I thought you were a child—" he said stupidly, troubled at the sudden discovery of the woman.
"Is that all?" she said, pretending displeasure.
He checked an impulsive compliment and said a little angrily:
"Oh, Patsie, you are going to make a terrible amount of trouble. I can see that!"
"Pooh!"
"Yes, and you like the mischief you're causing too. Don t fib!"
"Yes, I like it," she said, nodding her head. "Dolly and Doris stared at me as if I were a ghost. Well, I'll show them I'm not such a savage."
"I hope you won't change," he said.
"Won't I?" she said, and to tease him she continued, "I'll show them!"
He felt sentimentally moved to give her a lecture, but instead he said, deeply moved: