Besides her hat, she carried and now nonchalantly drew refreshment from a stick of spirally striped candy inserted for half its length through the end of a lemon.

The candy was evidently of a porous texture, so that the juice of the fruit would reach the consumer's pursed lips charmingly modified by its passage along the length of the sweet.

One needed but to approximate a vacuum at the upper end of the candy, and the mighty and mysterious laws of atmospheric pressure completed the benign process.
It should be said for the twins that they were not social climbers.

In their instant infatuation for this novel device they quite lost the thrill that should have been theirs from the higher aspects of the encounter.

They were not impressed at meeting a Whipple on terms of seeming equality.