But your advice is good and I shall take the paper there myself." "Oh yes, and I'll come, too," said Cornelli delightedly.

She knew no greater pleasure than to take a walk with her old friend, for Martha always discovered such interesting things and could point them out to Cornelli, telling her many, many things about them.

In many places Martha would be reminded of Cornelli's mother; then with great tenderness she would tell the child about her.

Martha was the only one who ever talked to Cornelli about her mother.

Her father never spoke of her; and Esther, who had been in their service for a long time, always replied when the child wanted to talk to her about her mother: "Do not talk, please; it only makes one sad.