"Do you know--of course you don't--scarcely anybody has ever heard it--that I had a child once, a little girl, and she lived only one day." "And she might have been like you," was all Patty said, but Corinna understood.
"Do you remember your mother, dear ?" "Only a little," answered Patty, and then she told of the spangled skirt and the silver wand with the star on the end of it.

"That is all I can remember." She rose with a shy movement and held out her hand.

"Then I may come to-morrow ?" "Every day if you will, and most of all on the days when you need a friend." Bending her head, she kissed the girl lightly on the cheek.

"Do you like my cousin Stephen ?" she asked suddenly.
A look of scorn came into Patty's eyes.

"He is so superior," she answered, with a gesture of complete indifference.