Very likely it was not the same one.
MOTHER. Did he have a kind of pepper-and-salt suit, with one of
the buttons worn?
MRS. PETERKIN. I noticed one of the buttons was off.
AMANDA. We're off the subject. Did you buy his book?
ELIZABETH ELIZA. He never offered us his book.
MRS. PETERKIN. He told us the same story,we were going to
Providence; if we wanted to go to Boston, we must turn directly
round.
ELIZABETH ELIZA. I told him I couldn't; but he took the horse's
head, and the first thing I knew AMANDA. He had yanked you
round!
MRS. PETERKIN. I screamed; I couldn't help it!
ELIZABETH ELIZA. I was glad when it was over!
MOTHER. Well, well; it shows the disadvantage of starting
wrong.
MRS. PETERKIN. Yes, we came straight enough when the horse
was headed right; but we lost time.
ELIZABETH ELIZA. I am sorry enough I lost the exhibition, and
seeing you take the diploma, Amanda. I never got the diploma
myself. I came near it.
MRS. PETERKIN. Somehow, Elizabeth Eliza never succeeded. I
think there was partiality about the promotions.
ELIZABETH ELIZA. I never was good about remembering
things. I studied well enough, but, when I came to say off my
lesson, I couldn't think what it was. Yet I could have answered
some of the other girls' questions.
JULIA. It's odd how the other girls always have the easiest
questions.
ELIZABETH ELIZA.
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