"The reporters have been making me ridiculous for the last three years; now I have got back at one of them! And," she added, "that's all there is to that!" That night, however, when the house party was making toward bed, Sister Anne stopped by the stairs and said to Lord Deptford: "I want to hear you call me Sister." "Call you what ?" exclaimed the young man.

"I will tell you," he whispered, "what I'd like to call you!" "You will not!" interrupted Anita.

"Do as I tell you and say Sister once.

Say it as though you meant it." "But I don't mean it," protested his lordship.

"I've said already what I...." "Never mind what you've said already," commanded Miss Flagg.