40 THE CINDERELLA FROCK.

kind ? Why, Rovina, when you look as you
do now, you are absolutely handsome, too.
Just try it for a while, and see if they don’t
all tell you so.”’

“OQ Alice, you know nothing about it,
they might make believe so, but it wouldn’t
be real.”” Back came the old scowl again.

‘© Q,O! Rovina, you’re spoiling your face
already,’”’ broke out Alice in dismay.

The bad look vanished. ‘* But there,’’
said Rovina, earnestly, ‘‘ I don’t want to be
handsome for the sake of being handsome,
don’t think so, Alice ; but isn’t it dreadful to
be among people and feel that one is so dis-
agreeable to every body ? I do believe ’tis
that makes me so wicked.”’

‘“‘ And I believe, Miss Rovina Gove, your
one little friend Alice made a great mistake

when she called you ‘‘a sensible girl,’”’ as my