Patty at Home
party would be stating it very mildly. It was o
ecreed that on that day none of the Elliotts sh
in the morning Patty and her father
ce's over to our house; but this time it's different. We're going to stay, to live, really to reside in our own home; and whenever we go to Aunt
at once. And I don't want you to wear yourself out trying to become such a personage. Indeed, I shall be
u to feel about it; and I think I can safely promise to make en
with amusement. And now, how about your pa
hat I have to do this morning, and a
It's the first time that I have carved at my own table for a great ma
s time they had reached the gate, and Patty was skipping along
to a casual observer, it looked as if there was
autiful new glass and china with most satisfactory effects. Pansy had watched the proceedings with intellige
ening we'll have supper, and you may set the table all by yoursel
o be done on Thursday morning, even though t
ooms; also, a few potted plants in full bloom had come for the conservatory, and these so deli
em grow by themselves for a while;
're daisies! Real white da
s to-morrow, and you'll have m
ed in the cook-books and in the household periodicals; especially did she incline toward marvellous de
to try the most complicated recipe of all, and,
ication, she rolled up her sleeves and tied on a white apron; and
labub-churn, and Mancy was requested to blanch some almonds
through what threatened to be somewhat troubled waters, yet she had the more
ngly fluid; the sugar refused to "spin a thread," and obstinately crystallised itself into a hard crust; the almonds persisted i
ough, though it was with some misgivings that she finally pour
the freezing process; but, as she was about to begin, sh
o go wrong about that dessert! Well, Pansy, you use what i
fice was closed for the day, and, hanging up the receiver with a
out my entertainment now, Puss; run away and get dressed, or yo
ate? And I have to ge
, then, and make all
ess of making all the haste she cou
ie; and, as it was the first time that she had made a toilette in her new home, it is
, for mercy's sake, come up and help me. I can't find my shoe-butt
, Patty completely attired, but very flushed and breathless from her rapid exertio
d demurely, and try
a white cashmere whirlwind had struck
rry smile with another. "I just dawd
d her father, and just
and! That's the first ring at our own doorbell, our own doorbell, you know;
o affected her young mistress, Pansy Potts, in neat
ations were drowned in the outburst of enthusiasm that accompanied the entrance of the Elliotts. The younger members of the
sitting down in the middle of the floor. "I will
d Patty. "She is fatter than ever; but,
large easy-chair, and announced that she must sit there for a few mo
ake cold, and so to-day it burst upon her in all its glory. By this time Frank and Marian were inves
claimed Patty; "or, as Pansy ca
clock dinner, yet when the clock hands pointed t
talked about that the ti
at Patty a li
and excusing herself, w
t's almost three o'clock.
n' your old nuts dat my work got put behind. Di
ck to the par
e to try it. I didn't realise it was so late, and I'm awfu
ve it soon," said Frank; "none of
ad been carefully planned; Mancy's cooking was beyond reproach, and Pans
they succeeded one another, Patty began to hope that h
tle hostess, and many a glance of happy understanding passed
own jolly, you having a hou
you awfully over home
s I took breakfast there this morning, you haven't
Uncle Charley, "and it is that
as she watched Pansy Potts, who was just entering the room
as the dessert was placed in front of her.
ice. "I understand; those spun-sugar t
certainly are, Aunt Alice; and I'll never attempt one
here's an attraction about that general conglomeration that appeals to me more strongly tha
, the dessert proved uneatable, and had to be repla