`` What is a personality ? Is it another word for ghost ? '' asked Peter . `` No , '' said the Story Girl shortly . `` I ca n't stop in a story to explain words . '' `` I do n't believe you know what it is yourself , '' said Felicity . The Story Girl picked up her hat , which she had thrown down on the grass , and placed it defiantly on her brown curls . `` I 'm going in , '' she announced . `` I have to help Aunt Olivia ice a cake tonight , and you all seem more interested in dictionaries than stories . '' `` That 's not fair , '' I exclaimed . `` Dan and Felix and Sara Ray and Cecily and I have never said a word . It 's mean to punish us for what Peter and Felicity did . We want to hear the rest of the story . Never mind what a personality is but go on -- and , Peter , you young ass , keep still . '' `` I only wanted to know , '' muttered Peter sulkily . `` I DO know what personality is , but it 's hard to explain , '' said the Story Girl , relenting . `` It 's what makes you different from Dan , Peter , and me different from Felicity or Cecily . Miss Reade 's Aunt Una had a personality that was very uncommon . And she was beautiful , too , with white skin and night-black eyes and hair -- a ` moonlight beauty , ' Miss Reade called it . She used to keep a kind of a diary , and Miss Reade 's mother used to read parts of it to her .
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