I wish Lily were not so nice to Mr.
Rosedale, but she says it's no use being rude to him, because he doesn't see the difference.

She really can't bear to hurt people's feelings--it makes me so angry when I hear her called cold and conceited! The girls at the club don't call her that.

Do you know she has been there with me twice ?--yes, Lily! And you should have seen their eyes! One of them said it was as good as a day in the country just to look at her.

And she sat there, and laughed and talked with them--not a bit as if she were being CHARITABLE, you know, but as if she liked it as much as they did.

They've been asking ever since when she's coming back; and she's promised me----oh!" Miss Farish's confidences were cut short by the parting of the curtain on the first TABLEAU--a group of nymphs dancing across flower-strewn sward in the rhythmic postures of Botticelli's Spring.