I was Mercury." "Oh, can you do trick work on bicycles ?" "Yes, a little," said Kenneth modestly.
"I wish you'd come out and be Mercury in our play." "Aren't you going ahead rather fast, Patty, child ?" said her father.
"Your club hasn't decided to use this play yet." "I know it, papa, and of course I mean if we _do_ use it; but anyway, I'm president of the club, and somehow, if I want a thing, the rest of the girls generally seem to want it too." "That's a fine condition of affairs that any president might be glad to bring about.

You ought to be a college president." "Perhaps I shall be some day," said Patty.
The dinner hour flew by all too quickly.

Patty greatly enjoyed the sights and sounds of the brilliant, crowded room.

She loved the lights and the music, the flowers and the palms, and the throngs of gaily dressed people.
Kenneth Harper enjoyed it too, and thought he had rarely met such attractive people as the Fairfields.
When he took his leave he thanked Mr.Fairfield courteously for his pleasant evening, and promised soon to call upon them at Boxley Hall.
They reached home by a late train, and Patty went up to her pretty bedroom, with her usual happy conviction that she was a very fortunate little girl and had the best father in the world..