Part 27 (1/2)
”Exactly that!” exclaimed Isabel, who looked particularly pretty in a soft-blue suohile Elizabeth was like soet into the most awful heaps, Cora, dear
But you never can rest without relaxing, and to do that--”
”Belle!” exclaimed Cora, ”that is precisely why you never rest--you never relax your brain You're always thinking of resting and not doing it”
Bess sank into a wicker chair and smothered the cushi+ons Bess was stout--”when she sat down,” as Cora expressed it
”Got your car ordered yet?” asked the hostess, passing around the box of chocolates Neither girl could resist thereatest muddle
Every one in New City seeood one, he doesn't knohich one to select”
”Why not ask Jack?” suggested Cora ”He's had lots of experience”
”Just what I proposed,” replied Belle ”You, kno queer poor, dear papa is He really dislikes ht of her,” answered Cora ”I was hoping you h, but so for a real, choice bit”
She passed the chocolates again Bess took one, but her sister shook her head
”Well, as to news,” remarked Bess, ”we have heard that Sid Wilcox has a new machine”
This was news indeed, after what that youth had said to Cora that very day Or had he been only fooling her?
”A new one,” repeated Cora vaguely, trying to, gather her thoughts
”Brand, spick--span neent on Bess ”We haven't seen it, you know, but we've heard that it is a beauty”
”What extravagance!””His runabout isn't very old I wonder where he gets all his money?”
”Don't you remember he said he had soested Belle
”But the bank wouldn't let him subscribe,” added her sister
”What did he do with his other car--the one that was broken in the collision?” asked Cora
”Maybe he--pawned it,” suggested Belle, who had rather vague ideas concerning pawnshops
”Very likely he would if he could” This frouess Sid is very fond of a change--and exciteht of her experience with hiirls,” commented Belle
”Aula Allen told me that he and Ida were 'on the outs'”
”Indeed!” and Cora raised her pretty eyebrows ”I fancied he was too--too convenient a friend for Ida to drop Butmore ioing to have a 'doings,' as I used to call the herself to some more of the chocolates ”Make it a lawn party”
”Well, that's just what I want you to help me with I know that Belle ant to make it a seance with relaxed robes and collapsed masks and relapsed--”
”Oh, you're mean!” exclaimed the taunted one ”I'm not such a freak as that”