"You hateful spite-cat!" she cried.
Then she picked up the picture and laid it face down in her drawer, while two big tears ran down her cheeks.

Kate saw those also.
Instantly she relented.
"You big silly goose!" she said.

"Can't you tell when any one is teasing?
I think I never saw a finer face than the one in that picture.

I'm jealous because I never left home a day before in all my life, and the minute I do, here you go and have such luck.

Are you really sure of him, Nancy Ellen ?" "Well, he asked Father and Mother, and I've been to visit his folks, and he told them; and I've been with him to Hartley hunting a house; and I'm not to teach this winter, so I can have all my time to make my clothes and bedding.