"I trusted them because they look so wonderful when they are
finished,--just right,--never too much so.
"Our bell rang then, and Phyllis answered and said, 'Tell them Miss
Starr will be in in a moment.'
"There is a general apartment maid, and when we wish to be very
perfectly fine, we borrow her,--for a quarter.
"When I knew they had arrived, I leaped up, panic-stricken, and dived
head first into that pile of Nile green silk and real lace. They
rescued me tenderly, and pushed me in, and hooked me here, and buttoned
me there, both panting and gasping, I madly hurrying them on, because I
can't get over that silly old parsonage notion that it isn't good form
to keep folks waiting.
"'There you are,' cried Gladys.
"'Fly,' shouted Phyllis.
"Out I dashed, recollected myself in the bathroom, and--yes, I did that
foolish thing, Carol. Your vanity would have saved you such a blunder.
But I tore myself from their blood-stained hands, and went in to meet a
millionaire's son's mother without looking myself over in the mirror.
"When I parted the curtains, Andy leaped to his feet with his usual
quick eagerness, but he stopped abruptly and his lips as well as his
eyes widened.
"'How do you do?' I said, moistening my lips which already felt too
wet, only I didn't know what was the matter with them.
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