Thank you, and please thank the others for me.

Tell them how very much I appreciate it, and tell them, too, if you will, that here in this factory today I have had my outlook on life widened to an extent which I had thought impossible.

For that, too, I thank you." Of course they couldn't hear him in the main room, but they could see when he had finished speaking.

They clapped their hands; the band played; and when he arose and bowed, they clapped and played louder than before.
And a few minutes later when the party left the dining room to the strains of El Capitan, it seemed to Mary that after the closing chord she heard two vigorous beats of the drum--soul expression of Mrs.Kelly, signifying "That's us!" The visitors departed at last, and Mary returned to her office to find other callers awaiting her.
The first was Helen, togged to the nines.
"Somehow she heard they were here," thought Mary, "and she came down thinking to meet them.

She thought surely I would bring them in here again." But her next reflection made her frown a little.