But I will tell you, and then you will be glad too to think about going to heaven.

I'll tell you the pretty song that Clarissa taught me.

Would you like to hear it now ?" Elsli would have been glad to hear the song, but at that moment Mrs.
Stanhope entered the room.

She was much surprised to see the two little girls already on such good terms, and still more so when Nora said:-- "Mamma dear, there is really no hurry about the silk and the pencils, nor about the eggs either; I don't care for any of them just now; it will do as well by and by.

I'd rather have Elsli stay here with me." Her mother was well pleased, and answered,-- "Certainly; Elsli can stay with you now; it will be time enough for the errands when she comes in the afternoon." The two children were equally delighted; Nora at the prospect of pleasant intercourse to enliven her weary hours, and Elsli at the thought of sitting in peace and quiet by this friendly new acquaintance.
As Mrs.Stanhope sat down with them, nothing more could be said about the Song of Paradise, and Nora must put off till another time her account of all that Clarissa had told her about the happiness of the heavenly life.