been done. You can't very well spank them. I wish[Pg 34] you could. You can only scold—and what earthly good will that do them, or you?" [Pg 34] "I don't know that anything I may say," said Arthur, "will do them any good. I live in hopes." "Have you any idea where they've gone?" "I'll cast about in a big circle and find their tracks." When Arthur, mittened and snow-shoed, had departed in search of Lee and Gay, the remaining sisters gathered about the full-page advertisement in The Four Seasons, and passed rapidly from anger to mild hysterics. Mary was the last to laugh. And she said: "Girls, I will tell you an awful secret. I never would have consented to this, but as long as Lee and Gay have gone and done it, I'm—glad." "The only thing I mind," said Eve, "is Arthur. He'll take it hard." "We can't help that," said Maud. "Business is business. And this wretched, shocking piece of mischief spells success. I feel it in my bones. There's no use being silly about ourselves. We've got our way to make in the world—and, as a sextet——" She lingered over the picture. [Pg 35] [Pg 35] "As a sextet, there's no use denying that we are rather lovely to look at." Phyllis put in a word blindly. "Maud," she said, "among the applications you have received, how many are from women?" Maud laughed aloud. "None," she said. "There wouldn't be," said Eve.
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