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She is somewhat paler and thinner than she used to be amongst the breezy hills of Wales, but her eyes are brighter, and the expression of her countenance is gentler. 'How stupid I am! she exclaims. 'Gladys would reckon them up directly, but she is at the school, and I am ashamed to ask Nita, with all her accounts. She pauses a moment and lays down her pen. Her eyes fall upon an unopened letter.
"There's Lois Dunlap's car just driving up," Penny cried, her face softening with the adoration she had freely professed for her friend. But it clouded again almost instantly. "And Nita Selim. I suppose Nita was a little ashamed to drive up in her own Ford coupe."
Dundee retorted, then grinned down at her with as much comradely affection as if they had been friends for years instead of for a couple of hours. "Is Nita very small?" he added. "Little enough to tuck herself under the arm of a man a lot shorter than you," Penny assured him with curious vehemence.
Evenings when he looked over the Graphic from home, or read the books his mother sent him, that he might keep in touch with the world, Nita was beside him, patient, but jealous. Then, when he threw his book or paper down and took her on his knee and looked into her pretty eyes, or frolicked with her, she fairly laughed with delight.
On leaving the hut to return to Chamouni, Madame Grennon accompanied her visitors a short way, and Nita took occasion, while expressing admiration of Baptist's appearance, to comment on his curiously anxious look. "Ah!
"Well, you see, we have only one, and I do hope you don't like coffee best." "I don't!" he declared. "I always drink chocolate when I can get it." "I'm glad I brought it, then!" cried Polly. "You cut the cake, please, Miss Nita. I'm afraid I couldn't do it straight." The little feast was ready at last, appetites were found to be of the keenest sort, and everything went merrily.
Nita Ordway and Viola and I stood for a moment with Calliope at her gate. "Come!" we begged her, "now go with us. We are all late together. There is no reason why you should not go with us to the Christmas party." But Calliope shook her head. "I'm ever so much obliged to you," she said, "but oh, I couldn't. I've hed too rilly a Christmas to come down to a party anywheres."
But I must begin at the beginning, or you can't understand." Polly drew a long breath, and recounted the details of the sad story. "The next morning I happened to go over to see Miss Nita," she concluded, "and Mrs. Albright told me this. Miss Crilly was there, too. Miss Crilly rooms right next to Miss Twining and heard a good deal; but she didn't dare to stir."
"Princess" just fits her, doesn't it? He declares he shall feel slighted if I don't call him "Nelson"! As if I would that dignified man! Nita insists that he isn't dignified one bit, but I don't agree with her. Anyway, I shan't leave off the "Mr." to-day! They were only gone a week. I go over there nearly every day. The house has been altered a good deal.
At length the loneliness got so bad that he had to see some living thing from home, or make a flunk of it and go back like a cry baby. He had a stiff pride still, though he sobbed himself to sleep more than one night, as many a pioneer has done before him. So he wrote home for Nita, the collie, and got word that she would be sent.
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