human
You're a lucky girl to be presented at a Galt House ball! they exclaimed presently, returning to the subject in hand.
gpt
And Cousin Effie May has really been _too_ sweet about it. Insists, simply insists that we shall all three of us stand up with her in the receiving line! Says she'd be terribly shy without us. (Joan smiled faintly at the picture of Effie May being shy.)
human
We said to her, 'No, my dear, one of us is _quite_ enough. We'll draw straws for it, as we always used to.' Dear papa never let all three of us go to the same party. As he said, 'It's too much of a good thing!' (Slang, you know.) But she assured us that she had three evening dresses she couldn't get into, --it was Miss Euphemia speaking at the moment, quite unaware of any naïvété in the sequence of her remarks,--
gpt
It certainly is! agreed Miss Iphigenia, as if it were one that weighed upon her heavily.
human
You simply can't give things of that sort to the poor.
gpt
Why not? murmured Joan,
human
Why, but dear child, it wouldn't be suitable! It would give the poor ideas beyond their station. Fancy presenting a spangled net evening-gown to--Susy, say! It would never do!
gpt
I suppose not, because she would certainly burst with joy. But think, mused Joan,