What is it, Martha ?" "Martha!" exclaimed Patty in surprise, "oh, no, Aunt Isabel, I was named for my great-grandmother.

My name is Patricia." "Oh, how lovely," cried Aunt Isabel, kissing her niece in the exuberance of her delight.

"We will all call you Patricia.

It is a beautiful name and suits you extremely well.

You must stand very straight, and acquire dignified manners in order to live up to it." This made merry Patty laugh, but she offered no objection to her aunt's decision, and promised to sign her name Patricia whenever she wrote it, and to make no further use of the despised nickname while staying at Villa Rosa.