As for the clothes, well, your 'witch with a wand' has come to the rescue again." "Cousin Kate ?" gasped Joyce.
Mrs.Ware nodded.

"What would you think if I were to tell you that there has been a box hidden away in my closet for nearly a week, waiting for this letter, which I knew was on its way, and inside are the very things you need to complete your summer outfit?
There is a new hat, for one thing, and material for several very pretty dresses." Mary danced up and down, her hair ribbons bobbing over her shoulders, and her face ashine, as she cried, "Oh, sister, isn't it lovely?
I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad!" But Joyce stood with her face suddenly grown serious and her lips trembling.

Her little sister's unselfish delight made her conscience hurt.

Putting her arms around her mother's neck, she hid her face against her shoulder.

"Oh, mother," she sobbed, "I don't deserve it all! Here I've been so fretful and discontented all day, thinking there'd never be any good times any more, and that there was nothing but work ahead of me, and all the time this beautiful surprise was on its way.