But when I came here, I found the
girls of my age acting like children, and having splendid times
doing what I had always thought was silly, and not caring the
least bit about society and all that. I shall just get used to
this and like it, and then go back into the other once more."
"But not in just the same way, I hope."
"I suppose not, auntie; but it won't make so very much difference,
after all."
"Perhaps not," her aunt answered; "but it may make a little. If
you hadn't come to us, you would never have seen the other side,
that there are a few good times outside of the parties and the
young men. And even if you go back into it when you go home, as
you probably will, Katharine, it won't do any harm for you to have
had a year to stop and think, and talk matters over, before
plunging into the 'scrabble,' as you call it."
"It seemed so queer, when I first came East," said Katharine, as
she took up her work again, "to see you and Molly sit down and
talk for an hour at a time. Mamma hasn't ever done it with us,
only to joke with us, or ask about our lessons once in a while.
But everything that comes up, Molly and Polly Adams say, 'Mamma
says so,' or 'Mamma thinks so.
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