"Isn't he !" Tavia.  
"Do you think so? I never call a pretty boy 'stunning,'" replied Dorothy. "I like Tom's looks best. He's so vigorous and ."
 
"But Roland's curly hair! And that complexion—so hyacinthy."
 
" my objection," argued Dorothy. "I always object to 'hyacinthy' boys."
 
"Well, I'm just a little glad of it, Doro, for the fact is I think I might him into taking care of me at the 'doings.' Now, I happen to know he fancies you, and my only chance is that you may turn him down."
 
Dorothy laughed merrily. She was no prude, and made no of being one. She enjoyed most of the nonsense that girls between fifteen and eighteen years of age usually enjoy. The strange young men, Tom Jennings and Roland Scott, whom the White boys had taken to the woods on the " hunt," called that very morning—came to make their "party call," they said.
 
Dorothy and Tavia were busy with the Christmas wreaths when the strangers happened in. Ned and Nat had gone to town, and it devolved upon the girls to be "civil" to the new boys.
 
To be sure, Joe and Roger helped some, but Roger managed to say rather embarrassing things about beaus, and Roland's love, that youth having asked the litt............