WITH BETTY AND EUGENIA When the Little Colonel reached the hotel, the omnibus was leaving the door to go to the railroad station, a few blocks away.

Thinking that Betty and Eugenia might be on the coming train, she went into the parlour to wait for the return of the omnibus.

She had bought a box of chocolate creams at the cake shop on the corner to divide with Hero.
Fidelia had wandered down to the parlour in her absence, and now seated at the old piano was banging on its yellow keys with all her might.

She played unusually well for a girl of her age, but Lloyd had a feeling that a public parlour was not a place to show off one's accomplishments, and her nose went up a trifle scornfully as she entered.
Then she caught sight of herself in the mirror over the mantel, and her expression changed instantly.
"For mercy sakes!" she said to herself.

"I look like one of the proud and haughty sistahs in 'Cindahella,' as if I thought the earth wasn't good enough for me to step on.