as long as her friend's, and straightened up again. "Well think of girls sometimes, Mike. I'll never recover from the funny thrill of discovering you were really a boy after all."

"What gave you the first suspicion, Dolly?”

"Well, after we were walking from that bus trip where we first struck up acquiantance. You were absolutely mad about stopping in five dress shops in five minutes to try something on. You didn't buy anything."

"Uh-huh but that was the first time I'd been out in broad daylight and on public transportation yet! as a girl."

Dolly giggled.

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"Broad is right!" Everytime a boy whistled at you you blushed, turned and smiled as though that was your first whistle. If I hadn't rushed you along into lots of "no-men-allowed' places, you'd have had half the male population on our backs."

"Those were my first wolf-whistles, Dolly. They went to my pretty, saucy, artless, incredibly beautiful head."

"Hah!"

so you were kinda cute. So Madam LaFarge would be kinda cute wearing what you were wearing. If I ever saw a girl on the make. !"

"That made you think I was born a boy?”

"It started something that became a suspicion when I asked you suddenly for a hankie. You started to make a gesture toward a man's side pocket before you thought of looking in your purse."

"That was dumb of me."

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"Not dumb of you at all but you didn't know me very well. I was thrilled to death at what I imagined I'd found in you. I'd always dreamed of a boyfriend who could be a girlfriend to me - go but everywhere with me! Those parents of mine ..

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