"
"She wouldn't be bad-looking if 'tweren't for her nose," said
Peter. "It's too long, and crooked besides."
"You needn't criticize our relations like that," said Felicity
tartly.
"Well, aren't you doing it yourselves?" expostulated Peter.
"That's different," retorted Felicity. "Never you mind Great-aunt
Eliza's nose."
"Well, don't expect me to talk to her," said Dan, "'cause I won't."
"I'm going to be very polite to her," said Felicity. "She's rich.
But how are we to entertain her, that's the question."
"What does the Family Guide say about entertaining your rich, deaf
old aunt?" queried Dan ironically.
"The Family Guide says we should be polite to EVERYBODY," said
Cecily, with a reproachful look at Dan.
"The worst of it is," said Felicity, looking worried, "that there
isn't a bit of old bread in the house and she can't eat new, I've
heard father say. It gives her indigestion. What will we do?"
"Make a pan of rusks and apologize for having no old bread,"
suggested the Story Girl, probably by way of teasing Felicity.
The latter, however, took it in all good faith.
"The Family Guide says we should never apologize for things we
can't help. It says it's adding insult to injury to do it. But
you run over home for a loaf of stale bread, Sara, and it's a good
idea about the rusks.
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