Anyway, the Princess had said she would come over; mother and Shelley had been decent to her, and Sally hadn't been exactly insulting.

It would be a little more than you could expect for her to be wild about the Princess.

I believe she was pleased over having been invited to dinner, and as she was a stranger she couldn't know that mother had what we called the "invitation habit." I have seen her ask from fifteen to twenty in one trip down the aisle on Sunday morning.

She wanted them to come too; the more who came, the better she liked it.

If the hitching rack and barnyard were full on Sunday she just beamed.