The girls shrieked and attacked the cookies, and of all the treats Elnora offered perhaps none was quite so long remembered as that.
When Elnora took her basket, placed her books in it, and started home, all the girls went with her as far as the fence where she crossed the field to the swamp.

At parting they kissed her good-bye.

Elnora was a happy girl as she hurried home to thank her mother.

She was happy over her books that night, and happy all the way to school the following morning.
When the music swelled from the orchestra her heart almost broke with throbbing joy.

For music always had affected her strangely, and since she had been comfortable enough in her surroundings to notice things, she had listened to every note to find what it was that literally hurt her heart, and at last she knew.