Many women can indulge their passion for sweets at meals and sweets between meals without serious injury--to complexion; Lottie Wright, unluckily, couldn't.
"I feel sorry for Susie," she went on, in the ludicrous patronizing tone that needs no describing to anyone acquainted with any fashionable set anywhere from China to Peru.

"And I think the way you all treat her is simply beautiful.

But, then, everybody feels sorry for her and tries to be kind.

She knows--about herself, I mean--doesn't she, Ruthie ?" "I guess so," replied Ruth, almost hanging her head in her mortification.

"She's very good and sweet." "Indeed, she is," said Lottie.