She'd learned it in a convent herself and I never saw finer work anywhere." "I did like to do it," said Robin.

"I never seemed to get tired of sitting in my little chair in the bay window where the flowers grew, and making tiny stitches." "You had a gift for it.

Not all girls have," said Dowie.

"Sometimes when you were embroidering a flower you didn't want to leave it to take your walk." "I am glad I had a gift," Robin took her up.

"You see I want to make these little things with my own hands.