Have you really taken this funny little house, as Phil tells us ?" "We really have.

Oh, what a comfort it will be to tell you all about it, and have you say if I have done right! Dear, dear Katy, I feel as if home had just arrived by train.

And Polly, too! You all look so well, and as if California had agreed with you.

Amy has grown so that I should scarcely have known her." Four delightful days followed.

Katy flung herself into all Clover's plans with the full warmth of sisterly interest; and though the Hopes and other kind friends made many hospitable overtures, and would gladly have turned her short visit into a continuous _fete_, she persisted in keeping the main part of her time free.