red and Honored
type of Womanhood which does not think it is ladylike to have knowledge
of business matters.

Seeing the look on his face, I said to myself: "Kitty Canary, it is all
over. A pin has been stuck in your balloon and the air is out." And I
got up and went in and danced with every man dancer in the room, and
hardly knew who they were, the breaks were so often. I had a good
time, but also I had a right sinky feeling, for it's pretty wabbly to
realize that nothing human is to be depended on very long, and that a
girl may be engaged one day to a man and not speaking to him the next.
Not that I had ever been engaged. I hadn't, not caring for what goes
with engagements, but I might have been if I hadn't remembered about
the different things I have fallen in and been fished out of when there
was some one by to haul me out. Nobody being by, I had to take care of
myself, and I thought it best to go only so far and no farther.

On the way home Whythe tried to say some things pretty low about how he
had missed me while away, but Miss Susanna and Miss Araminta were in
the back seat of the car (it was Mr. Lipscomb's Ford, and borrowed, of
course), and he had to be so careful it was a strain, and as I didn't
answer he stopped after a while. It takes two to do more things than
make a bargain, and to battledore love without having it shuttlecocked
back isn't much fun. He wanted to know what was the matter when I got
out, and I told him it was sleep. He didn't seem to like that, either.
It's hard to please men.

CHAPTER XX

I didn't see Whythe for the next few days, as I thought it best not to,
and, besides, I had bushels of letters to write and a very special one
to Father, and I had no time for him. The thing I had to write Father
about was money. I wanted five hundred dollars, and the only way I
knew how to get it was to ask him to give it to me; so I asked. I
always did believe that the person who gives the money ought to be told
what is to be done with it, and that is why I wrote Father as I did;
and, besides, he likes to hear little bits of news about the
Twickenham-Towners, and asking for the money gave me a chance to tell
him.

He had told me, when he was here, that if there was any way in which I
could be of service in the right way to let him know and he would put
up the money part, if I would manage the other part, and it would be a
little secret between us and nobody else need know anything