Elnora lifted a ghastly face.
For once no one laughed.

She stood an instant staring.
"It seems to be my luck to be crucified at every point of the compass," she said at last.

"First two days you thought I was a pauper, now you will think I'm a fraud.

All of you will believe I bought an expensive box, and then was too poor to put anything but a restaurant sandwich in it.

You must stop till I prove to you that I'm not." Elnora gathered up the lids, and kicked the sandwich into a corner.
"I had milk in that bottle, see! And custard in the cup.