"Who can it be ?" she wondered.

"Another young hussy gone wrong ?" Kitty turned to her mother with a look of alarm.

"What's a hussy ?" she asked.

"Does grandmamma mean me ?" The great hotel clock in the hall struck two, and the child's anxieties took a new direction.

"Isn't it time my little friends came to see me ?" she said.
It was half an hour past the time.