"I hope the girls that live here will appreciate you, Grace.

I hope none of them will be as silly as J.Elfreda Briggs was." "Elfreda, how can you ?" remonstrated Grace.
"How could I, you mean," flung back Elfreda.

"Because I was a spoiled, selfish ingrate who never stopped to think of any one else's rights." "Now, now, Elfreda," protested Mrs.Gray.
"Well, I was," insisted Elfreda positively.

"It took a whole year to reduce me to order.

I wasn't as hopeless as some of the others.