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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I guess bad manners aren't monopolized by any particular class." The flouncy one flounced out. These visits finally became very obnoxious, though they could not be stopped. Even a sign, over the door-bell, "No begging; no slumming," was quite ineffective in shutting out either class.
He was all eyes for any movement of hers. She was dressed in a flouncy morning gown eminently suitable for the world in which she was moving. "A bird," she replied, with an airy toss of her head. "This is June-time, and the sparrows are teaching their young to fly."
What arguments she used, or what she said to Delight, Marjorie never knew, but she returned, after a time, bringing both Delight and Miss Hart with her. Delight made a beautiful picture in a filmy, lacy white frock, and a big blue bow on her golden curls. "Hello, Flossy Flouncy!" cried King, and this broke the ice, and made it easier for Delight than a more formal greeting would have done.
The animals counted as in the former schedule and as each was picked from the pile it was given to Miss Hart, and she credited it to the player who took it. Of course, as in Jackstraws, if one made a mis-play it was the next player's turn. This game was great fun, and they watched each other breathlessly, though careful not to joggle anybody. "Now, Flossy Flouncy," cried King, "it's your turn.
He was so good-looking and well-spoken a young man, that the ladies in the housekeeper's room deigned to notice him more than once; nor was his popularity diminished on account of a quarrel in which he engaged with Monsieur Anatole, the enormous Walloon chasseur, who was one day found embracing Miss Flouncy, who waited on Amethyst's own maid. The very instant Miss Flouncy saw Mr.
"It sounds lovely," said Delight; "I always wanted to belong to a club, but I never have before. Can't we cut up a jink, now?" "You must say 'cut up jinks, Flossy Flouncy," said King, smiling at the pretty, eager face. "You can't cut 'em by ones." "Well, cut some, and show me how." "I believe you think we cut 'em with scissors, like paper dolls," said Marjorie, laughing.
Really she looked more like a fairy, with her frilly white frock and her golden hair and blue eyes. "Hello, Flossy Flouncy!" called out King, using his pet name for Delight; "you're a daisy May Queen! I offer you my humble homage!" A daisy May Queen was an appropriate term, for Delight's white frock was trimmed and wreathed with garlands of daisies.
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