This was a nice predicament ! If Kenneth Ford could see her now , limping along like a little girl with a stone bruise ! Oh , what a horrid way for her lovely party to end ! She just had to cry -- it was too terrible . Nobody cared for her -- nobody bothered about her at all . Well , if she caught cold from walking home barefoot on a dew-wet road and went into a decline perhaps they would be sorry . She furtively wiped her tears away with her scarf -- handkerchiefs seemed to have vanished like shoes ! -- but she could not help sniffling . Worse and worse ! `` You 've got a cold , I see , '' said Mary . `` You ought to have known you would , sitting down in the wind on those rocks . Your mother wo n't let you go out again in a hurry I can tell you . It 's certainly been something of a party . The Lewisons know how to do things , I 'll say that for them , though Hazel Lewison is no choice of mine . My , how black she looked when she saw you dancing with Ken Ford . And so did that little hussy of an Ethel Reese . What a flirt he is ! '' `` I do n't think he 's a flirt , '' said Rilla as defiantly as two desperate sniffs would let her . `` You 'll know more about men when you 're as old as I am , '' said Mary patronizingly . `` Mind you , it does n't do to believe all they tell you .
Do n't let Ken Ford think that all he has to do to get you XXXXX a string is to drop his handkerchief .
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