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Updated: May 4, 2025
And, although I'm perfectly sure you want me to take the thing to mother, I'll do nothing of the sort." It had cost me a dollar. It was quite brown when I got it out, and a corner was burned off. But I got it. "I'll thank you to burn your own things," I said with dignaty. And I went back to the drawing room. The girls and Carter Brooks were talking in an undertone when I got there.
"Well, Miss Barbara!" she said. "How you've grown!" That made me rather sore, because I am not a child any longer, but they all talk to me as if I were but six years old, and small for my age. "I've stopped growing, Hannah," I said, with dignaty. "At least, almost. But I see I still draw the nursery."
But when my sister uttered the above dispariging remark I saw that, to preserve my own dignaty, which I value above precious stones, I would be compelled to go on. "I'm perfectly mad about him," I said. "And he's crazy about me." "I'd like very much to know," Sis said, as she stood up and stared at me, "how much you are making up and how much is true." None the less, I saw that she was terrafied.
"Carter" I said, "I do not beleive in the double, standard, and never did." "The what?" "The double standard," I said with dignaty. "It was all well and good when war meant wearing a kitchin stove and wielding a lance. It is no longer so. And I will show you." I did not mean to be boastfull, such not being my nature.
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