Carmella Commands
“Oh, I heard of that dame. M’ mother knows her.Kind of high hat, ain’t she?”
“I don’t think so. She’s very pleasant. She wants to talk with you.”
Miss Sargle moved on, expecting Carmella to follow. Thus she had been trained. But Carmella stood firm.
“What’s she want to talk to me about?”
“I’m sure I don’t know. Perhaps about the sewing class.”
“I don’t know a blame thing about it, except that she’s high hat. Why don’t she ask Mrs. Scalzo?”
Miss Sargle started in surprise. The girl’s uncanny wisdom of things was—Miss Sargle searched her mind for the word—well, it was uncanny.
“I don’t know, Carmella. Come this way, please.”
“Oh, all right!”
And so Carmella Coletta met Mrs. Rodney Barrington.
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