Bessy watched the gyrations of her shapely little foot.

She could not keep still even in abstraction.
"A girl _must_ have a good time," she replied presently.

"I've done things I hated because I couldn't bear to be left out of the fun....
But I like most to read and dream.

Music makes me strange inside, and to want to do great things.

Only there _are_ no great things to do.
I've never been nutty about a career, like Helen is.