Somehow, you look unusually pretty to-night." And Billy's heart ached anew.
Billy spent the evening practicing--softly, to be sure, so as not to wake Baby--but _practicing_.
As the days passed Billy discovered that it was much easier to say she would "change things" than it was really to change them.

She changed herself, it is true--her clothes, her habits, her words, and her thoughts; but it was more difficult to change Bertram.

In the first place, he was there so little.

She was dismayed when she saw how very little, indeed, he was at home--and she did not like to ask him outright to stay.

That was not in accordance with her plans.