As she came through the door, "You blessed old darling!" she cried.

"What am I going to say to make you know how I appreciate your lovely, lovely gift ?" Katy raised her head.

There was something that is supposed to be the prerogative of royalty in the lift of it.

Her smile was complacent in the extreme.
"Don't ye be standin' there wastin' no time talkie'," she said.
"I have oodles of time," said Linda, "but I warn you, you won't know me if I put on that frock, Katy." "Yes, I will, too," said Katy.
"Katy," said Linda, sobering suddenly, "would it make any great difference to you if I were the only one here for always, after this ?" Katy laughed contemptuously.
"Well, I'd warrant to survive it," she said coolly.
"But that is exactly what I must tell you, Katy," said Linda soberly.
"You know I have told you a number of times through these years that I did not believe Eileen and I were sisters, and I am telling you now that I know it.

She did not come to the bank today, and the settlement of Father's affairs developed the fact that I was my father's child and Eileen was her mother's; and I'm thinking, Katy, that the big car you saw and the opulent people in it were Eileen's mother's wealthy relatives from San Francisco.