Why I had Mrs.
Howlett do such a thing I don't know, unless it was that my own
admiration for my heroine led me to believe that some more than usual
attention was her due. In my own behalf I will say that I should in
all probability have eliminated or corrected this false note when I
came to the revision of my proofs." The chapter then proceeds.)
"What shall we wear?" mused Mrs. Willard, as Marguerite folded Mrs.
Howlett's note and replaced it in its envelope.
"I must positively decline to discuss that question. It is of no
public interest," snapped Marguerite, her face flushing angrily. "My
clothing is my own business, and no one's else." She paused a
moment, and then, in an apologetic tone, she added, "I'd be perfectly
willing to talk with you about it generally, my dear Dorothy, but not
now."
Mrs. Willard looked at the girl in surprise.
(Note.--Stuart Harley has written this in the margin: "Here you have
one of the situations which finally compelled me to relinquish this
story. You know yourself how hard it is to make 30,000 words out of
a slight situation, and at the same time stick to probability.
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