We will help those people all we can, Kathy, by stirring up our acquaintances here.

You invite the girls for tomorrow night and I'll have the house ready for them." That I had been an inspiration to this gentle girl in her work of mercy was a great joy to me, and all the next day I was constantly bursting into a round of cheerful twitters and I swung myself in my hoop as fast as I could make it go.
The best room was swept and dusted with the greatest care, and a few extra chairs moved in from other parts of the house.

My cage was transferred from its usual hook to the parlor, and about eight o'clock the guests thronged in and soon every seat was filled.

They were principally girls who were clerks in stores, or worked in shops and offices, and many of them were very smartly dressed.

A few, like Miss Katharine and her sister, were more plainly attired; but all were lively and full of girlish fun and seemed to enjoy being together.