`` You 'll have to put your shoes and stockings on when you go to the magic lantern show to-night , '' said Felicity in a tone of satisfaction . `` I do n't know that . I 'm thinking of going barefooted . '' `` Oh , you would n't ! Sara Stanley , you 're not in earnest ! '' exclaimed Felicity , her blue eyes filling with horror . The Story Girl winked with the side of her face next to Felix and me , but the side next the girls changed not a muscle . She dearly loved to `` take a rise '' out of Felicity now and then . `` Indeed , I would if I just made up my mind to . Why not ? Why not bare feet -- if they 're clean -- as well as bare hands and face ? '' `` Oh , you would n't ! It would be such a disgrace ! '' said poor Felicity in real distress . `` We went to school barefooted all June , '' argued that wicked Story Girl . `` What is the difference between going to the schoolhouse barefooted in the daytime and going in the evening ? '' `` Oh , there 's EVERY difference . I ca n't just explain it -- but every one KNOWS there is a difference . You know it yourself . Oh , PLEASE , do n't do such a thing , Sara . ''
`` Well , I wo n't , just to oblige you , '' said the Story Girl , who would have died the death before she would have gone XXXXX a `` public meeting '' barefooted .
Sara as if in of on that to to-night with