d yawned, showing all her pretty white teeth.

"Little simpleton, you're the rabbit," she said. "The girls still like
you, but they're used to you and they rather expect you to do something
now. It's your turn to do tricks, like the bunny."

"And I--" Janet began.

"Oh, you sit in the corner and sulk and say, 'Yes, thank you,' and 'no,
thank you,' and the girls are discouraged. Can't blame them, you know.
You're Phyllis's sister, and they have a right to expect more from
you." She said it all in her soft furry voice, and it was impossible
to resent it. Janet watched her fasten her coat collar up closer about
her neck, but she could not speak.

Daphne apparently did not expect her to.

"It's your turn now," she repeated and without another word turned and
walked away.

Janet did not follow her except with her eyes. She seemed rivetted to
the spot on which she stood. When Daphne was out of sight she turned
once more to the reservoir, but this time she saw more than the clouds
reflected in the dull water. She saw her own mistake.

CHAPTER VIII

A CHANGE IN JANET

"Hello, you two, where are you bound for?" Eleanor joined Sally and
Phyllis as they were on their way to Sally's house and took them each
by an arm.

"Home," Sally replied, "home to muse with wonder and sorrow over the
sickening cruelty of Ducky Lucky."

"I know," Eleanor nodded sympathetically; "isn't to-morrow's math.
simply terrible. I'm not going to try to do it."

"Well, I am," Sally announced emphatically. "Catch me staying in for
an hour and listening to a long and weary lecture on my many sins; no
thanks. If the worse comes to the worst, I will make Daddy do it for
me."

"Where's Rosey-posey?" inquired Phyllis. "You're not going to walk all
the way home to your house, are you?" Eleanor lived across the city on
Riverside Drive.

"Walk, well, I guess not, but I had to make a start to get Rosey away
from the piano. She's playing while Madge teaches some of the other
seniors how to dance the latest step. I wish she'd hurry, I hate
loosing my special bus." She glanced behind her and then stopped.
"Here she comes now."

Rosamond joined them. She was out of breath but she was laughing.

"Oh, my hat!" she exclaimed. "Muriel will kill me yet. I met her in
the cloakroom and we went out together. I thought she looked worried,
but I didn't catch on until she began making excuses to get rid of me,
then I looked ahead and