You remember Aunt Truth's hobby that we should never defend ourselves
by attacking any one else, and none of us would ever complain, if we
were hung, drawn, and quartered.
Laura was miffed at having to play Audrey, but we didn't know that
she could come until the last moment, and we were going to leave that
part out.
'I don't believe you appreciate my generosity in taking this
thankless part,' she said to Bell, when we were rehearsing. 'Nobody
would ever catch you playing second fiddle, my dear. All leading
parts reserved for Miss Winship, by order of the authors, I suppose.'
'Indeed, Laura,' Bell said, 'if we had known you were coming we would
have offered you the best part, but I only took Rosalind because I
knew the lines, and the girls insisted.'
'You've trained the girls well--hasn't she, Geoffrey?' asked Laura,
with a queer kind of laugh.
But I will leave the unpleasant subject. I should not have spoken of
it at all except that she has made me so uncomfortable to-day that it
is fresh in my mind. Bell and Polly and I have talked the matter all
over, and are going to try and make her like us, whether she wants to
or not. We have agreed to be just as polite and generous as we
possibly can, and see if she won't 'come round,' for she is perfectly
delighted with the camp, and wants to stay a month.
Polly says she is going to sing 'Home Sweet Home' to her every night,
and drop double doses of the homoeopathic cure for home-sickness into
her tea, with a view of creating the disease.
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