She made such a fuss about it, that Allison finally said she'd change, and make Malcolm take the part of boatman, and give Alex the part they had intended for Malcolm, even if they didn't fit as well." "The hateful thing!" sputtered Mary, indignantly.

"I don't see how she can insinuate such mean things about any one as sweet and beautiful as Lloyd is." "I don't either," agreed Elise, "but Allison says it is true that everybody who has ever started out as a special friend of Bernice, men I mean, have ended by thinking the most of Lloyd.

But everybody knows that it is simply because she is more attractive than Bernice.

As Ranald says Lloyd isn't a girl to fish for attention, and that Bernice would have more if she didn't show the fellows that she was after them with a hook.
Don't you tell Lloyd I told you all this," warned Elise.
"Oh, I wouldn't think of doing such a thing!" cried Mary.

"It would hurt her dreadfully to know that anybody talked so mean about her.