Requests the Pleasure of your Company at a Lawn Fete and Dance to be
held at the residence of her Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Lockwood,
Saturday July 15, at 8 p. m. R.S.V.P.
The envelope fluttered to the floor while the card was crushed between
the girl's hands. For a moment her face was transfigured with delight,
her eyes blank with rapturous visions of the joys of that promised
night.
"Oh!... it 'ud be grand!..."
Then suddenly the light faded. Her eyes clouded, her face settled into
its discontented lines. She stuffed the card heedlessly into the pocket
of her dingy apron, and took up another glass.
"But I can't go; I've got nothin' to wear...."