Betty Gallup could not be
trusted, Louise knew. And the day dragged by its limping hours without
Lawford Tapp's coming near the store on the Shell Road.
This last Louise could not understand. But there was good reason for
Lawford's effacing himself at this time. In the empire of the Taffy
King there was revolution, and this trouble dated from the hour on the
previous morning when Louise had met and greeted Aunt Euphemia on the
beach.
The Tapp sisters may have been purse-proud and a little vulgar--from
Aunt Euphemia's point of view, at least--but they did not lack acumen.
They had seen and heard the greeting of Louise by the Ferritons and the
extremely haughty Lady from Poughkeepsie, and knew that Louise must be
"a somebody."
Cecile, young and bold enough to be direct, was not long in making
discoveries. With a rather blank expression of countenance L'Enfant
Terrible, for once almost speechless, beckoned her sisters to one side.
"Pestiferous infant," drawled Marian, "tell us who she is?"
"Is she a Broadway star?" asked Prue.
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