Here I was feeling stupid
and a little lonely; I looked at the Big Front Door, and presently it
opened and you came out and straight over here, to make me cheerful
again."
The children beamed on her with faces that said plainly: "Here is an
appreciative person."
At this moment who should appear but Mary, with a plate of warm spicy
cookies! The climax of sociability was reached!
"Miss Brown, is it hard to knit?--to learn, I mean," Louise asked
presently, looking admiringly at the bright wools the lady was working
with.
"Not at all; I learned when I was a little girl."
"I should like to know how, it is such pretty soft work," said Bess.
"I shall be very glad to teach you. We might have a knitting class for
rainy afternoons."
"And after awhile perhaps we could make an afghan for Uncle William!"
cried Louise delightedly. "Wouldn't that be fun, Bess?"
"If it would not be a trouble to Miss Brown."
"It would be a great pleasure to me," she answered, smiling at the
bright faces.
"It would be nice--" Bess began.
"Well, dear, what?" as she hesitated.
"I don't know whether I ought to ask you, for it might be a bother to
you, but I was thinking how nice it would be to have a club, and ask
Dora and Elsie.
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