CHAPTER V
LOVE'S MESSENGER
BOTH Hilary Vance and Mr. James were quite alive to the difficulty of the task of adorning angel children with fitting raiment. For five days Mr. James came every afternoon to tea; and they discussed gravely the forms, colors, and shades of color of the frocks and tunics which should most nobly set out the beauty of Pollyooly and the Lump.
For ever the keener taste of Mr. James curbed Hilary Vance's tendency to the flamboyant: it was his strong desire to robe Pollyooly in stiff cloth of gold. But Mr. James urged firmly that Pollyooly was a human being and not a figure in a piece of tapestry, that no human being who was not an utter fool would dream of robing himself, or herself, in cloth of gold, save, of course, for the purpose of impressing utter fools.
But little by little their discussions clarified their
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