All the ladies kissed and kissed.
The baby wondered at their act, rolling its eyes.
Mother Schuyler was quite fussy with a little speech about the history of its Japanese gown.
Funny old dear!
24th—Mr. Oscar Ellis came to paint me.
Dear Oscar!
I have never before left my face alone for such a close scrutiny.
I was restless at first, fancying that he was gathering all my flaws.
Then it happened in my thought that his absorption had something of religious devotion in it.
I grew easy.