The Rise of the Colored Empires

Daisy and Miss Baker made only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained. They knew that presently dinner would be over; later the evening too would be put away. Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively, and with a bantering in consequence that was never quite chatter. Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? She looked at us all radiantly. What do people plan? Before I could answer, her eyes fastened with an odd expression on her little finger.