[Kitty Trenire by Mabel Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookKitty Trenire CHAPTER IX 20/20
She'll never change, not if she lives to be eighty. Come along up, and get ready.
Oh, I _am_ so glad you thought about the supper, Betty dear.
How clever you are! Aunt Pike would have thought worse of me than ever if you hadn't, and--" "Um!" responded Betty, with a toss of her head, "perhaps if Aunt Pike knew that if it hadn't been for me she'd have had no supper, she wouldn't say rude things about me again.
I think it's awfully hard. If you don't do things you are scolded, and if you _do_ do them you are called too self--self-confidential." "I wouldn't mind what I was called," said Kitty, as she hurried away to get ready, "as long as I could manage to do the right thing sometimes, and not always forget till too late.".
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