`` Perhaps pigs may whistle , but they 've poor mouths for it , '' was all the answer Peter deigned to this charming suggestion . `` There goes Mr. Campbell down the road , '' said Dan . `` That 's his new mare . Is n't she a dandy ? She 's got a skin like black satin . He calls her Betty Sherman . '' `` I do n't think it 's very nice to call a horse after your own grandmother , '' said Felicity . `` Betty Sherman would have thought it a compliment , '' said the Story Girl . `` Maybe she would . She could n't have been very nice herself , or she would never have gone and asked a man to marry her , '' said Felicity . `` Why not ? '' `` Goodness me , it was dreadful ! Would YOU do such a thing yourself ? '' `` Well , I do n't know , '' said the Story Girl , her eyes gleaming with impish laughter . `` If I wanted him DREADFULLY , and HE would n't do the asking , perhaps I would . '' `` I 'd rather die an old maid forty times over , '' exclaimed Felicity . `` Nobody as pretty as you will ever be an old maid , Felicity , '' said Peter , who never put too fine an edge on his compliments . Felicity tossed her golden tressed head and tried to look angry , but made a dismal failure of it . `` It would n't be ladylike to ask any one to marry you , you know , '' argued Cecily . `` I do n't suppose the Family Guide would think so , '' agreed the Story Girl lazily , with some sarcasm in her voice .
The Story Girl never held the Family Guide XXXXX such reverence as did Felicity and Cecily .
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