Two toilettes to prepare! What an event for such a country girl as you! Come in and let us see." "Mamma, you know my things are all ready.

I don't want to go in.

I don't want to go." "Lucia! Are _you_ changeable, also, then ?" "No, mamma.

At least not without cause." Mrs.Costello smiled, "What is the cause at present ?" Lucia moved impatiently.

"Oh, it is so stupid!" she said.
"What is stupid?
A picnic ?" "No, people," and she laughed half shyly, half saucily, and blushed deeper still.
"What people ?" "Bella has been telling me--;" "Telling you what, my child?
That people are stupid ?" Lucia sat down again in her old place, and pulled her mother back into hers.