Put on your white dress to-night, just to please me." But Marian drew away from her, frowning angrily.

"Really, Grace," she exclaimed, "you are too provoking for any use, and I wish you would mind your own business and let me wear what I choose." "Please pardon me, Marian," said Grace, turning toward the door.

"I am sorry to have troubled you," and was gone like a flash.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marian Barber!" burst forth Eva.
"The idea of telling Grace to mind her own business! You haven't been a bit like yourself lately, and I know that it's all on account of that Henry Hammond, the old snake." "You will oblige me greatly, Eva, by referring more respectfully to my friend, Mr.Hammond," said Marian with offended dignity.

Then she sailed out of the room, her train dragging half a yard behind her, while Eva turned to the mirror with a contemptuous sniff and powdered her little freckled nose almost savagely before following her irate roommate down stairs..