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"I congratulate the following girls, and request that they come forward to receive the Pioneer badge: "Edith Evans, Helen Stewart, Frances Wright, Ethel Todd, Marian Guard, Lily Andrews, Ruth Henry, Marjorie Wilkinson, Doris Sands, Florence Evans, Alice Endicott, Mildred Cavin, Evelyn Hopkins." Amid the shouts of their companions, the girls stepped up to receive their badges.
"Well!" exclaimed the porter, and he actually stopped making beds to look at such a big little girl. Mary Jane liked him and started to tell him about Doris and the birthday party and the pretty things in her trunk, but Dr. Smith came back just then and there was no more time for talk. "Got your coat?" he asked, "and your hat and your everything?"
Doris thought she should like to see the smart little Elizabeth, who was like a woman already, and her old playfellow James, as well as Ruth, who seemed to her hardly beyond babyhood.
As for Hal herself, she hastily tumbled into bed, still chuckling in huge enjoyment over her evening. "Those boys are just dears," was her thought, "and I wouldn't have missed Lady Bounce for the world. What a good thing Dudley was taken with paternal affection for that little fool Doris, and I had to have a chaperone.
And as he tore off the blinder he put his head down close to Doris, and whispered: "It was mean of you to hide behind grandfather every time, and he didn't play fair a bit." But having a peep at the red shoes as they went dancing round was fair enough! Hollis Leverett sang in the choir. They had come to this innovation, though they drew the line at instrumental music.
"Though I don't know," she declared after reflecting a day or two on the subject. "I'll have such a good excuse to go to Uncle Win's, and we can have delightful talks. But Aunt Priscilla is certainly a dispensation of Providence equal to St. Paul's thorn in the flesh." "I've made her some visits this winter, and she has been real nice," said Doris. "I shouldn't mind her at all now.
The girl's exquisite aloofness, her fineness and sweetness, bewitched him. The real meaning of her character did not interest him at all. Here was something that he wanted; the rest would be an easy conquest. Thornton had always got what he wanted and lay siege to Meredith's heart at once. His approach, while it swept Meredith before it, naturally aroused fear and apprehension in Doris.
In the three weeks' time she had spent at Plessy before I came there, Doris had made the acquaintance of all kinds of elderly spinsters, who lived in the different hotels en pension, and who would go away as soon as the visitors arrived, to seek another "resort" where the season had not yet commenced, and where they could be boarded and bedded for ten francs a day.
The next day she was made ready for her couch, where she was to lie in perfect quiet after the operation. At two o'clock, Dr. Douglas, with two young assistants, entered easily and cheerfully upon his task. "Are you strong enough to witness it?" he asked in alow voice, as Doris took her stand. She bowed her head, and the work began. It was neither long nor difficult.
Where the road dipped there was a group of ilex trees, and it was in their shade that I kissed Doris, and the beauty of the trees helps me to appreciate the sentiment of those kisses. And I remember that road and those ilex trees as I might remember a passage in Theocritus.
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