So you can't expect me to look forward to it with your touching young rapture." "Didn't you have a good time at your first party, though, Miss Oliver ?" "No.

I had a hateful time.

I was shabby and homely and nobody asked me to dance except one boy, homelier and shabbier than myself.

He was so awkward I hated him--and even he didn't ask me again.

I had no real girlhood, Rilla.