This one had given her cherries for many a summer.

That other had bought her a little waxen Jesus at the Kermesse.

The old woman in the blue linen skirt had taken her to her first communion.

She who wanted her sister to have the crust and the flowers, had brought her a beautiful painted book of hours that had cost a whole franc.

Another had given her the solitary wonder, travel, and foreign feast of her whole life,--a day fifteen miles away at the fair at Mechlin.