Just Patty. Jean Webster

funny story," Patty ruminated, "the way we'll tell it."

      "I think you're perfectly horrid!"

      "Will you apologize to Rosalie?" Priscilla asked again.

      "Yes—if you'll promise not to tell."

      "We'll promise on one condition—you're to break your engagement to Cuthbert St. John, and never refer to it again."

      Cuthbert sailed for England on the Oceanic the following Thursday; St. Ursula's plunged into a fever of basket-ball, and the atmosphere became bracingly free of Romance.