That's all you need do.

You can give out to all your friends that you have received me as a visitor, because you were kind to me, and I wanted to come back to Northbury so badly." After considerable more parley on both sides, the matter was arranged, and who more cheerful than Mrs.Bell as she tripped upstairs to prepare Matty's room for her guest.

She was quite obliged to Matty now for having left her bed, for the thought of that little secret hoard, which Monday by Monday she might collect, and no one be the wiser, had filled her heart with rejoicing.

So she helped Hannah to spread Josephine's bed with her finest linen sheets, and altogether she made the little chamber cosy and pleasant for its new inmate.

All signs of poor Matty's illness were removed, and that young lady's possessions were hastily carried into her sisters' joint bedroom.