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"So you liked my shade hat with the May-flowers? That is very nice of you. The disadvantage about a man friend is that his education in millinery is defective, as a rule. I was quite pleased that you knew it was a May-flower. Father asked me if they were hollyhocks, and I told him no, they were peonies.
"Faithfully your friend,
"Marna Trent.
"P.S. I forgot to say yes, thank you; I will drive with you on Sunday, if you wish."
"Oh, now you have spoiled it all! How could you, how could you begin all over again, and be disagreeable? Do you suppose I would have. walked in the garden with you, by moonlight, by June moonlight, if I had n't trusted you? I don't trust people over again when they shake my trust, either, not if I can help it. That is one of my peculiarities. I have attacks of lunacy,—idiocy, if you will,—but I swing back, and come to my senses, and look at things with a kind of composure which I don't wonder that you did not count on. I don't think it is characteristic of girls, as girls go, and I know that it is not considered admirable or lovable by men. But I cannot help that, and I don't want to help