lily

“She brought Lily Jones for herself.

Lily is only five years old and she is very beautiful and had nut-brown hair.

Phillips’s brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.

An Unfortunate Lily Maid