Linda looked at Katy inquiringly, and Katy, her face beaming, nodded her sandy red head emphatically.
"More birthday gifts you've havin', me lady," she said in her mellowest Irish voice.
"More ?" marveled Linda.

She picked up the larger package, and opening it, found a beautiful book inscribed from her friend Donald, over which she passed caressing fingers.
"Why, how lovely of him!" she said.

"How in this world did he know ?" Katherine O'Donovan could have answered that question, but she did not.
The other package was from Marian.

When she opened it Linda laughed unrestrainedly.
"What a joke!" she said.

"I had promised myself that I would not touch a thing in Eileen's room, and before I could do justice to Katy's lovely dress I had to go there for pins for my hair and powder for my nose.
This is Marian's way of telling me that I am almost a woman.