Yes! I'll write and ask Mrs.Piper to lend us her ermine cloak for the king.
See if I don't!" Shrieks of delight hailed this noble offer, for no one had dared to borrow the much-coveted mantle, but all agreed that the old lady would not refuse Jill.

It was astonishing how smoothly everything went after this, for each was eager to help, admire, and suggest, in the friendliest way; and when all were dressed, the boys found a party of very gay ladies waiting for them round the couch, where lay the brightest little Princess ever seen.
"Oh, Jack, I'm to act! Wasn't it dear of the girls to choose me?
Don't they look lovely?
Aren't you glad ?" cried Jill, as the lads stared and the lasses blushed and smiled, well pleased at the frank admiration the boyish faces showed.
"I guess I am! You are a set of trumps, and we'll give you a first-class spread after the play to pay for it.

Won't we, fellows ?" answered Jack, much gratified, and feeling that now he could act his own part capitally.
"We will.

It was a handsome thing to do, and we think well of you for it.

Hey, Gus ?" and Frank nodded approvingly at all, though he looked only at Annette.
"As king of this crowd, I call it to order," said Gus, retiring to the throne, where Juliet sat laughing in her red table-cloth.
"We'll have 'The Fair One with Golden Locks' next time; I promise you that," whispered Ed to Mabel, whose shining hair streamed over her blue dress like a mantle of gold-colored silk.
"Girls are pretty nice things, aren't they?
Kind of 'em to take Jill in.