It embarrassed me a thousand times more to see how she would slyly watch out of the corner of her laughing eye for the signs of my diffidence.
Well, of course, all the girls called on her, and boys too, as to that, and I had to take her to return their visits, and I was in hot water all the time.

Before she went away, mother gave her a large evening party.

I behaved with my usual elegance of manner, stepping on the ladies' trains and toes in dancing, calling them by other people's names, and all those little courtesies for which I was so famous.

I even contrived to sit down where there was no chair, to the amusement of the fellows.

My cousin Susie was going away the next day.