She held it out, and then snatched it back as if she were jealous of our even looking at it.

Madame told us that it was the one you gave her at the Noel fete.
It is the only doll the child ever had, and she has carried it ever since, even taking it to bed with her.

She has named it for you.
"Madame said in her funny broken English, 'Ah, it is a beautiful thing to leave such memories behind one as Mademoiselle Joyce has left.' I would have told her about the Road of the Loving Heart, but it is so hard for her to understand anything I say.

I think you began yours over here in France, long before Betty told us of the one in Samoa, or Eugenia gave us the rings to help us remember.
"We took Fidelia Sattawhite with us.

She is the girl I wrote to you about who was so rude to me, and who quarrelled so much with her brothers on shipboard.