"I think it is just lovely here," replied Edna, "and I like all the girls, too. I shall be glad to see them again. I sort of remembered some of them, but you know I haven't been here before for ever so many years, and I had forgotten lots of things, even about the house and the place."
"Then don't stay away so long as to forget anything again," her grandmother charged her.
"I'm forgetting that this is the last chance I will have to help Reliance set the table," said Edna, jumping up.
She found Reliance had already begun this task and that Amanda was making some specially good tea-cakes in honor of this last evening. She was in a good humor and did not object, as she did sometimes, to Edna's being in the kitchen while supper was being prepared. "Just think," remarked Edna, as she leaned her elbows on the table to watch Amanda, "where I shall be to-morrow evening at this time."
"And are you sorry?" asked Amanda.
"No, not exactly. I am glad and sorry both. I should love to stay and yet I want to see them all at home."
"That's perfectly natural," Amanda returned, pricking the tea-cakes daintily.
"What do you have to do that for?" asked the little girl.
"To keep 'em from blistering," Amanda told her. "There, open the oven door, Reliance, and then bring me that bowl of cottage cheese from the pantry. I didn't know as it would be warm enough to allow of us having any more this week, but you see it was."
"I just love cottage cheese," Edna made the remark, as she watched Amanda pour in the yellow cream and stir it into the cheese. "I wish we kept a cow, so we could have all the milky things you have here."