So we must always celebrate it as a great feast day." Nika had lately been very sweet and friendly to Cornelli, and the younger girl had been very happy about it.

But had never dreamed that Nika would ever speak to her like this.
When Esther heard that the Halm family was going to remain for the present and return every year, she said: "Oh, I am glad.

That is much better than if some other people I know had to come back.

It is better for me and for Cornelli, as well as for the whole house." "Oh, if I could only come again, too!" said Trina, whose face in these days was always beaming.

"Oh, one feels so happy here!" "That is very true," Esther affirmed.