Don't get lonesome; have a good time; and forget that your father scolded you." "As if I minded that little feathery scolding! Come home early, and bring me something nice from the city.

Good-bye." Left to herself, Patty began to keep house with great diligence.

She planned the meals for the day, made out orders for market, gave the flowers in the vases fresh water, and looking in at the conservatory, she found Pansy Potts digging around the potted daisies with a hairpin.
"Pansy," she said kindly, "I'm glad to have you take care of the flowers; but you mustn't spend all your time in here.

Have you straightened up in the dining-room yet ?" "No, ma'am," said Pansy; "but these little daisies cried so loud to be looked after that I just couldn't neglect them another minute.

See how they laugh when I tickle up the dirt around their toes." "That's all very well, Pansy," said Patty, laughing herself; "but I want you to do your work properly and at the right time; now leave the daisies until the dining-room and bedrooms are all in order." "Yes, Miss Patty," said Pansy, and, though she cast a lingering farewell glance at the beloved posies, she went cheerfully about her duties.
"Now," thought Pansy, "I'll telephone to Marian to come over this afternoon and stay to dinner, and stay all night; then we can arrange about having the Tea Club to-morrow.