You blessed child, I never was more glad at anything in my whole life.

I am as proud as proud can be.

I feel as if I had written that book myself, and better than written it myself.

I have had none of the bother of the work and my friend had it and my friend has the fame and the glory and she goes around among us with her little halo hidden out of sight of everybody, except myself." "Margaret knows." Alice stiffened a little.

"That is recent," she said, "and I have known all the time." "Margaret could not have remembered that sentence, I am sure," Annie said thoughtfully.