Fan says Trix always asks when she comes home after the summer excursions, 'How many birds have you bagged ?' as if men were partridges.

What wicked creatures we are! some of us at least.

I wonder why such a love of conquest was put into us?
Mother says a great deal of it is owing to bad education nowadays, but some girls seem born for the express purpose of making trouble and would manage to do it if they lived in a howling wilderness.

I 'm afraid I 've got a spice of it, and if I had the chance, should be as bad as any of them.

I 've tried it and liked it, and maybe this is the consequence of that night's fun." Here Polly leaned back and looked up at the little mirror over the chimney-piece, which was hung so that it reflected the faces of those about the fire.