XXI
A WEDDING GARMENT
Now, during the fortnight or more in which Amy had heard not a word from Brenda, she had tried to possess her soul in patience. Although a little inclined to be cast down by trifles, she still had a strong sense of dignity, and she knew that it would be very foolish to repine at the loss of a friend who had grown indifferent to her. Yet while trying to appear philosophic when anything was said in her presence about Rockley, or the approaching wedding, her heart was still pretty sore. Fritz, by his behavior during this week or two regained all that he had previously lost in her opinion. He refrained from teasing her, and he never once made a slighting remark about Brenda, as had grown to be his custom during the days when her intimacy with Amy was at its height.
There may be some persons who in reading this may think it strange that Amy—or any one else—should attach importance to the fact that for a fortnight, or perhaps three weeks, one friend had neglected another friend. But persons who reason in this way have not witnessed the progress of a sudden intimacy between two very young girls. One of them, when a sudden fancy springs up, may attach more importance to it than to anything else which has come into her life. If she does not
