Part 39 (1/2)
”Oh, it would be just, heavenly! It will give such distinction I know the girls will love it”
”I think I can make myself pleasant to you all,” said Mrs Ward, ”and I should like to be there”
”But as to paying anything, Mrs Ward, you will couest, and you knoe have most of us plenty of ”
”Very well, dear, I will not press that point I hope I have made you happy, Kathleen”
”Oh! you have--very, very happy indeed And Saturday week is to be the day?”
”Yes, Kathleen”
Kathleen bent down, took one of Mrs Ward's hands, and kissed it Then she skipped out of the roo for her in a state of suppressed eagerness
”Well, Kathleen--Kitty--Kit, what's the news?” asked Maggie
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”We have won! Wein a low tone ”Oh, she's--she's like no one else! I don't kno you will take it, girls; but if you're not just delighted you ought, to be Why, what _do_ you think? She wants to coie in amazement
”Yes, just to supper She says she will come--she wishes to come--that we're to invite her; in fact, she ain after supper, and we're to have the whole glorious day, next Saturday week, from two in the afternoon until bedtigie ”It's ht
I rite the letters of invitation immediately”
”But why should you write a whole lot of letters?” said Kathleen ”You are one queen Write to the other queen andlike the present tiie wrote on a sheet of headed note-paper provided for her by her satellites the folloords:
”Queen Maggie presents her cos for the pleasure of her company with all her subjects on Saturday the 15th of October, to an entertainment from three to nine o'clock She hopes that the whole school will be present, and writes in the names of her own subjects as well as of herself
”_PS_--Mrs Ward has most kindly promised to attend”
This letter was subjected to the approval of the group of girls who surrounded Maggie It was then addressed to ”Queen Aneta,” and Kathleen crossed the room with it and dropped it, there and then, into Aneta Lysle's lap
It caused very deep aed to Aneta's party, and it is highly probable that they ical postscript, ”Mrs Ward hasthat patent fact, as Mrs Ward knew very hen she made the proposal to Kathleen
After a lapse of about twenty minutes, Cicely Cardew crossed the rooie's note in her lap: