Still, I don't know but it's just as well.

Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.
You couldn't be Marie in _these_ things.

Honestly, I'm feeling real Maryish these days.
I wonder if that's why the girls seem so queer at school.

They _are_ queer.

Three times lately I've come up to a crowd of girls and heard them stop talking right off short.