"Elise is a person of strong likes and dislikes.

If you try to be real nice and courteous she will certainly like you, and if you're rude and blunt, I don't believe she will.

Do you care, Azalea, whether she does or not ?" "No," said Azalea, calmly, and Patty gave a sigh of despair.

What was the use of trying to help a girl who acted like that?
Farnsworth, too, shook his head, and glanced at Patty with a sympathetic smile, and then they talked together to the entire exclusion of Azalea, who was so wrapped in her own thoughts that she didn't even notice them.
Not waiting for coffee, when the others went to the library, Azalea, with the briefest "good-night," went up to her room, and again locked her door.
"What does ail her ?" exclaimed Patty, as she and her husband sipped their coffee.
"I don't know,--but I'm going to find out.

Any letter from her father to-day ?" "No; I looked over her mail.