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Eight hundred girls in light evening-gowns were talking and laughing and singing. Snatches of song would start up in one corner and sweep gaily over the house, and sometimes two would meet and clash in the center, to the horror of those who preferred harmony to volume. "Here come the old girls!" said Patty, as a procession of some fifty filed into reserved seats near the front.
Her words came slowly in a detached voice, though as she spoke her delicate features responded to the shiver of disgust that ran through her shoulders and at times her lips quivered. "He wanted me to write it all telling about every man abroad, especially with a title, who had ever been nice to me. He wanted pictures of me; all sorts of pictures, in evening-gowns, in polo togs in bathing-suits.
Each hook bulged and overflowed with clothing: tawdry finery, evening-gowns, old skirts, wrappers, sacks, bath-robes, knitted jackets and shawls and miscellaneous underclothes. The drawers were so crammed that none would shut.
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