Have a good time, dearie." "I mean to!" she cried; and she repeated this gaily, but with an emphasis expressing sharp determination as she left him.

"I MEAN to!" "What was he talking about ?" her mother inquired, smoothing the rather worn and old evening wrap she had placed on Alice's bed.

"What were you telling him you 'mean to ?'" Alice went back to her triple mirror for the last time, then stood before the long one.

"That I mean to have a good time to-night," she said; and as she turned from her reflection to the wrap Mrs.Adams held up for her, "It looks as though I COULD, don't you think so ?" "You'll just be a queen to-night," her mother whispered in fond emotion.
"You mustn't doubt yourself." "Well, there's one thing," said Alice.

"I think I do look nice enough to get along without having to dance with that Frank Dowling! All I ask is for it to happen just once; and if he comes near me to-night I'm going to treat him the way the other girls do.