spend-the-night

Updated: June 20, 2025

This last was a popular word with Mattie, whose mind in relation to her own sex was distinctly interrogatory. All evening, mostly by indirect methods, she had been examining Carlisle in regard to Mr. Canning, and his strange visit.... "Oh, nothing," said Carlisle, gently patting her face with a steaming cloth. Mattie selected a hairbrush from her little spend-the-night kit.

Henry Sydnor Harrison - V. V.'s Eyes