You needn't try to fool me; I tell you I know what was the matter." "The only matter was I had a silly fit," Alice protested.

"It did me good, too." "How's that ?" "Because I've decided to do something about it, papa." "That isn't the way your mother looks at it," Adams said, ruefully.

"She thinks it's our place to do something about it.

Well, I don't know--I don't know; everything seems so changed these days.

You've always been a good daughter, Alice, and you ought to have as much as any of these girls you go with; she's convinced me she's right about THAT.