Sometimes it was a lovely dress--oh a wonderful gauzy dress--or a hat that was like the blowing field of flowers.

Sometimes--this was the loveliest of all--it was somebody who loved me.

But whatever it was, it was something I couldn't overtake.
"And you mustn't laugh, Katie, when I tell you that the thing that made me think I could catch up with it was a moving-picture show! "It came to Centralia--the first one that had ever been there.

I heard the people next door talking about it.

They said there were pictures of things that really happened in the great cities--oh of kings and queens and the president and millionaires and automobile races and grand weddings; that the pictures went on just like the happenings went on; that it was just as if the pictures were alive; that it was just like being there.
"Oh, I was so excited about it! I was so excited I could hardly get ready.
"You see ever since Tono had died--two years before, I had kept that idea that things were hard.