I had not seen her in six years. I remembered her unpleasantly as a great, bony, florid child, unable to stand still or to sit still, or to keep her tongue still, full of aimless questions and giggles and silly remarks, which she and her mother thought funny. I saw her now, grown into a handsome young woman, with enough beauty points for an honorable mention, if not for a prize-straight and strong and rounded, with a brow and a keen look out of the eyes which it seemed a pity should be wasted on a woman.
Her mother's looks, her father's good sense, a personality got from neither, but all her own, and unusual and interesting.
"From what Mr. Ball said," Mrs.
Ball was gushing affectedly to Anita, "I got an idea, that-well, really, I didn't know _what_ to think."
Anita looked as if she were about to suffocate. Allie came to the rescue.
"Not very complimentary to Mr. Blacklock, mother," said she, good-humoredly. Then to Anita, with a simple friendliness there was no resisting: "Wouldn't you like to come up to my room for a few minutes?"
"Oh, thank you," responded Anita, after a quick but thorough inspection of Alva's face, to make sure she was like her voice.
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