But the electrics even things up, somehow, and my complexion takes on a harmonising tint of brick red." "Because you are a brick," put in Channing.

"Did you get many Christmas gifts, Patty?
Did you get my small votive offering ?" "Did I get many gifts! My boudoir looks like a World's Fair! Yes, Chick, I got your present.

Let me see, it was the padded calf Emerson, wasn't it ?" "It was not! If you got that, it probably came from your Cosmetic friends.

I sent you--oh, if you didn't even open it----" "But I did, Chickadee.

It was a heavenly jade hatpin, an exquisite bit of carving.