Laura!" She jumped up.

"Get me the big basket out of the stairs cupboard." "But, mother, do you really think it's a good idea ?" said Laura.
Again, how curious, she seemed to be different from them all.

To take scraps from their party.

Would the poor woman really like that?
"Of course! What's the matter with you to-day?
An hour or two ago you were insisting on us being sympathetic, and now--" Oh well! Laura ran for the basket.

It was filled, it was heaped by her mother.
"Take it yourself, darling," said she.