The meat dish contained shaved cold ham, of which she knew the quality, the salad was tomatoes and celery, and the cup held preserved pear, clear as amber.

There was milk in the bottle, two tissue-wrapped cucumber pickles in the folding drinking-cup, and a fresh napkin in the ring.

No lunch was ever daintier or more palatable; of that Elnora was perfectly sure.
And her mother had prepared it for her! "She does love me!" cried the happy girl.

"Sure as you're born she loves me; only she hasn't found it out yet!" She touched the papers daintily, and smiled at the box as if it were a living thing.

As she began closing it a breath of air swept by, lifting the covering of the cake.