She stood tall and straight, her eyes very bright, and her cheeks a little redder than usual, as she shook hands and said a few pleasant words that were like from a book, they fitted and were so right.

When mother asked her to dinner she said: "Thank you kindly.
I should be glad to go, but my people expect me at home and they would be uneasy.

Perhaps you would allow me to ride over some week day and become acquainted ?" Mother said she would be happy to have her, and Shelley said so too, but Sally was none too cordial.

She had dark curls and pink cheeks herself, and every one had said she was the prettiest girl in the county before Shelley began to blossom out and show what she was going to be.

Sally never minded that, but when the Princess came she was a little taller, and her hair was a trifle longer, and heavier, and blacker, and her eyes were a little larger and darker, and where Sally had pink skin and red lips, the Princess was dark as olive, and her lips and cheeks were like red velvet.