"Dear Annie," she said, after she had introduced the two girls, "I am so glad you came over.

Come in." "It is pleasanter on the verandah, isn't it ?" began Annie, then she caught Margaret's expressive glance at the magnificent white silk.
They all sat stiffly in Margaret's pretty drawing-room.

Martha said she didn't play bridge and upon Annie's timid suggestion of pinocle, said she had never heard of it.

Wilbur dared not smoke.

All that wretched evening they sat there.