If I had not been so awfully tired I should have gone for you.

Grandma will tell you that I went to bed and to sleep before that shower came up, so I knew nothing of it.

I wonder you got home; but of course Dick came with you, or Billy, or possibly Tom.

I hear you entertained all three of them at the washtub! Pretty good for the first day home! Good-bye till to-night.

I only live till then, as they say in novels.
"HAROLD." This note, every line of which was full of affection and thoughtfulness for her, was worth more to Jerrie than the chocolate, or the bun, or the pretty cup and saucer which Harold had bought for her the night before, going to the village, a mile out of his way, on purpose to get them and surprise her.