She's just so winsome and dear and considerate of everybody that she's earned the right to be called the Queen of Hearts." "And now all four of you are happy," remarked Mary, "for your dreams have come true.

And seeing that makes me all the more determined to make mine come true." "Oh, the valedictory that you are to win for Jack's sake," said Betty, coming out of the revery into which she had fallen for a moment.
"That's only one of the things," began Mary.

"The others--" Then she stopped, hesitating to put in words the future she foresaw for herself.
Sometimes in the daylight it seemed presumptuous for her to aspire to such heights.

It was only when she lay awake at night with the moonlight stealing into the room, that such a future seemed reasonable and sure.
Unknowing that the hesitation held a half-escaped confidence, Betty did not wait for her to go on, but held up the check, saying, "You know this is a partnership story, and you are to get another trip to New York out of it.

Putting your shilling in the Christmas offering was a good investment for both of us.