"Of course mother has told me of the new leaves you've been turning
over--ever so many of them, though all in the same direction, and I
intended to compliment you on the great improvement in your style of
hairdressing and the general smartness of your appearance! Don't be
discouraged, my dear child. `Rome wasn't built in a day!'"
"And it will take a great many days, if ever, I suppose you mean," I
said rather ruefully, "to turn a tomboy into a oh! whatever she should
be."
"But by what I hear," said Jocelyn, "you have got a first-rate model
before you in the person of Miss Wynyard. I am very glad you are going
to stay with them so soon."