"But I'm not speaking of other people, I'm speaking of myself.

" "Kitty," they heard her mother's voice, "come here, show papa your necklace.

" Kitty, with a haughty air, without making peace with her friend, took the necklace in a little box from the table and went to her mother.

"What's the matter? Why are you so red?" her mother and father said to her with one voice.

"Nothing," she answered.