To have the word "deceive" used about herself without any glossing of it over made her feel very small and mean.
"We did think of it, father," she said earnestly; "but Kitty said she didn't want to seem to be always complaining about Aunt Pike." "I see," said Dr.Trenire quietly, and he gazed for a moment gravely into the fire before he left the room.
Betty never knew what passed between her father and her aunt; but she heard no more about the gray stockings, and she wrote off delightedly to Kitty to tell her all about it.
Kitty was out when the letter came.

It was the day on which the girls were taken for an afternoon's shopping or sight-seeing.
"I really must get some presents to take home to them all," she had said quite seriously to Pamela in the morning.
Pamela laughed.

"There are eleven more weeks to do it in," she said.
But Kitty covered her ears.

"Don't, don't," she cried--"just when I have been telling myself that time is flying, and that I haven't many more chances." "Well, you haven't _many_," laughed Pamela.

"Of course we don't go every week.