"But you must come," persisted Alcinda, "for it is in honor of you and Reliance, and Jetty is going to help receive."
"I will go ask mother," returned Edna, and running off she returned with Mrs. Conway.
"Mayn't Edna come to Jetty's tea-party?" begged Alcinda. "We have everything planned, and it will be perfectly dreadful if she stays away. She won't take cold, just going across the street, and our house is as warm as anything."
Edna looked beseechingly at her mother. "Do please say yes, mother," she begged.
"I don't see how you could take cold going just across the street, if you wrap up well and wear your rubbers," said her mother.
"Goody! Goody!" cried Alcinda. "Here is an invitation for Reliance, too. Be sure to come at four o'clock. I have some more invitations to deliver so I must go."
"Now I needn't have a tea-party for the dolls," said Edna when Alcinda had gone. Her mother smiled. "You speak as if that would be a great hardship," she remarked.
"No, I don't mean that, but I would so much rather go to Alcinda's. Shall I wear my best frock, mother?"
"Why, yes, I think you may."
"I wonder if grandma will let Reliance go, and what she will wear," said Edna, after a moment's thought. "I think I will go ask, mother, for I don't want to be better dressed than Reliance; it was really she who saved Jetty, you know."