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The days of that late autumn seemed to Pat to slip by like a golden river of happiness, even after the last cricket song had been sung. Mother was keeping well. father was jubilant over the good harvest. Cuddles was taking more interest in her lessons. the surplus kittens of the summer's crop had all found excellent homes. and there was enough of dances and beaus to satisfy Pat's not very passionate love of social life. Almost any time she would have preferred to roast apples and bandy lovely ghost stories in Judy's kitchen to going to a party. Cuddles could not understand this: SHE was longing for the day when she would be old enough to go to dances and have "boyfriends."
-"I mean to have a great deal of ATTENTION," she told Judy gravely. "A few flirtations. NICE ones, Judy. and then I'll fall in love SENSIBLY."