She is sweet, unselfish and wholesome, and always will be.

I am glad, glad, glad that her dream has at last been realized, and I should be the most selfish girl in the world if I didn't rejoice at her good fortune." She smiled through her tears at Mabel, who rushed over to her and exclaimed: "Jessica, dearest, you know perfectly well how much I do and always shall love you, and Grace and Anne and Nora, too." The four girls lingered a few moments, then said good-bye to Mrs.
Allison and Mabel, who was to remain for the present with her mother.
She kissed her friends tenderly, promising to see them the next day.
"I'll be in school to-morrow unless mother needs me here," she said with such a world of fond pride in her voice that the girls who had so willingly befriended her felt that their loss was a matter of small consequence when compared with the glorious fact that Mabel had come into her own..