"I should think you did, Patty; you're never anything but
accommodating."

"Oh, pooh! It's no trouble to me to sing. I'd just as lief do it as not;
only it seems foolish for me to sing when there are so many older people
with better voices to do it."

"Well, sing some simple little ballad, and I don't believe but what the
people will like it just as much as the arias and things sung by the
more pretentious singers."

So Patty followed Elise's advice, and when the night of the concert came
her name was on the programme for one song.

And, as Elise had thought, it pleased the audience quite as well as some
of the more elaborate efforts.

Patty wore one of her pretty new dresses, a simple little frock of white
chiffon cloth, with touches here and there of light blue velvet. Her
only ornament was the necklace that Ma'amselle Labesse had given her,
and in her curly golden hair was a single white rose.

Very sweet she looked as she stood on the platform to sing her little
song. She had chosen "My Ain Countree" as being likely to please a
popular audience, and also not difficult to sing.

Mr. Pauvret accompanied her on his violin, and so effective was his
accompaniment and so sweet pretty Patty's singing of the old song, that
their performance proved to be the most attractive number on the