Hetty. Yes, and such a reader! I heard her reciting Longfellow's Excelsior; and such reading, and such gestures! (Recites.)
"The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an All-pine village past—"
(All laugh.)
Fanny. O, it's ridiculous!
Lizzie. And then her dress! O, girls, I've made a discovery!
Fanny. What is it? What is it?
Hetty. O, do tell us!
Lizzie. Well, then, you must be secret.
Fanny and Hetty. Of course, of course!