"When was it arranged ?" "My mother invited her last Sunday." I didn't like the way he said: "O-o-o-h!" Some way it seemed insulting to my mother.
"She did it to please me," I said.

"There was a Fairy Princess told me the other day that your girl felt like a stranger, and that to be a stranger was the hardest thing in all the world.

She sat a little way from the others, and she looked so lonely.

I pulled my mother's sleeve and led her to your girl and made them shake hands, and then mother HAD to ask her to come to dinner with us.

She always invites every one she meets coming down the aisle; she couldn't help asking your girl, too.
She said she was expected at home, but she'd come some day and get acquainted.