CHAPTER IX.
TWO LIVE CHILDREN.
As Dotty lay tossing on her bed, she heard the laughing, and the lively music of the piano, and began to find she had missed a great deal by not going down stairs.
Horace and Prudy were getting a taste of fashionable society.

True, Prudy did tire of the fixed questions, "How do you like New York?
Have you been in the Park ?" asked by girls in pink, and girls in blue, and boys in wondrous neck-ties, with hair parted very near the middle.

She was astonished when Mrs.Pragoff proposed games.

How could such exquisite children play without tearing their flounces and deranging their crieped hair?
But games were a relief to Prudy.

When she was playing she forgot her thick winter dress, and appeared like herself.
"I don't believe Dotty can get to sleep in all this noise.