SED GIRL
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"Oh, I'm so sorry. Why do I never think before I say horrid things?
Forgive me, Patience, if you can. I'll gladly do anything for you."

Then the surprise came.

Patience, the silent, shy girl, threw her arms about the younger girl,
and held her close.

"The necklace that I have on was given to me by Aunt Millicent. I've
never worn it. It is beautiful, but I like quiet colors. The showy
things are prettier for other girls, I think. I heard Lina say that she
had lost hers, and I was just thinking that I would give mine to her,
when she rushed in, and--I hadn't a chance to tell her. That's all," she
said simply.

"Oh, I was worse even than I thought," cried Lina, "and to think, Mrs.
Marvin, that she was planning to give her necklace to me!"

"Promise me, Lina, that after this you will be less quick to accuse."

"Indeed I will, and Patience, if you'll let me, I'd like to be your
friend."

"I'm sometimes lonely. I need you, Lina," Patience said, gently.

Lina never did anything by halves. She told her classmates how just at
the time that Patience had been planning to give her own necklace to
make up for Lina's loss, she had been harshly accused. She told how
sweetly forgiving Patience had been, and wound up by stating that
hereafter they were to be chums.

Mrs. Marvin, on the way to her own apartment, vaguely wondered what the
next happening would be.

"I wonder if the entire week is to be a series of disturbances," she
thought. "To be sure, there are but two days more, Friday and Saturday,
but I should not be surprised if some one started something, so as to
make the week complete."

It certainly had been a record week for petty annoyances, and to cap the
climax on Friday, after lunch, Miss Fenler waited in the hall, near the
door that led from the dining-room. She felt that she must speak to
Patricia.

As a rule pupils were, of course, permitted to dress as they chose, but
it seemed as if Patricia was actually trying to see how strange a rig
she could wear and yet go unreproved.

On this day, she had done the oddest thing of all. She had tied her hair
on the crown of her head with a yellow ribbon. The ribbon was very wide,
and the bow was enormous. As if that were not enough she had taken
equally wide ribbon, of pink, and of blue, had tied a large bow of each
and then had pinned the pink bow to the right loop of the yellow bow,
the blue bow to the left loop, and when s