Indeed, once she had lost a dime, even on the way to spending it for five candy bananas and five jaw-breakers.

Plainly she had chosen her good name without knowing of the case of Ben Holt.

Then he promised to show her something the most wonderful in all the world, which she would never believe without seeing it, and led her to where the candy cane towered to their shoulders in its corner.

He saw at once that it meant less to her than it did to him.
"Oh, it's a candy cane!" she said, _calling_ it a candy cane commonly, with not even a hush of tone, as one would say "a brick house" or "a gold watch," or anything.

She, promptly detecting his disappointment at her coldness, tried to simulate the fervour of an initiate, but this may never be done so as to deceive any one who has truly sensed the occult and incommunicable virtue of the candy cane.