What did they do, Betty?"
"They fought and they fit and they scratched and they bit," chanted
Betty, "till instead of two cats there weren't any."
"I guess we had better take warning while there is still time, Grace,"
said Mollie, with a little laugh. And so for the time being at least
peace was restored.
"But when do you suppose Anita and her brother will come to see us?"
asked Amy. "I do hope it won't be very long."
"I think Amy likes Conway," said Grace, then turning to Betty she asked
meaningly: "Do you, by any chance, believe in love at first sight?"
"Oh, I think it can be done," Betty answered, her eyes twinkling with
fun as she looked at Amy's flushed face. "At least, I do believe in
strong attractions at the first meeting. Perhaps that is all Amy has
felt just yet."
"Oh, girls!" implored Amy, in an agony of bashfulness, "I don't like
Conway Benton one bit more than any of the rest of you, and you know it.
I think it is mean for you to tease."
"Oh, Amy, dear, it is only fun," cried Betty, throwing an arm about her
friend. "We don't really think that you have been smitten with a
stranger's charms.
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