I was sixteen years old then; I wore sailor suits and my hair was braided down my back.

Probably I did look young; and then Nannie, whom I was supposedly visiting, was only fifteen.

There were a lot of cousins in the house besides all the little Hilliards, and what do you think?
They made the children eat in the schoolroom! I never saw him until Christmas night; then when we were introduced, he shook my hand in a listless sort of way, said 'How d' y' do ?' and forgot all about me.

He went off with the Glee Club the next day, and I only saw him once more.
"We were playing blind man's buff in the school-room; I had just been caught by the hair.

It hurt and I was squealing.