She was still active and still determined, however.

No girl in her presence was going to read interminably the palm of one upon whom she had, in a way of speaking, a family claim, especially one of such distinguished appearance and manners--apparently being bored to death by the attention of mere girls.
Tennis resulted in a set of doubles, Merle and his little friend playing Patricia and one of her little friends--the one with the necklace and the dark eyes.

The desirable new man was not dressed for tennis, and could not have played it in any clothes whatever, and so had to watch from the back line, where he also retrieved balls.

Both girls had insisted upon being at his end of the court.

Their gentlemen opponents were irritated by this arrangement, because the girls paid far more attention to the new man than to the game itself.