“Do you suppose she would like to have the rest of us write to her?” Ruth asked.
“I’m sure of it!” Blue Bonnet cried, delightedly. “I mean to answer this right away—and I’m going to send her a Christmas box.”
“Oh,” Susy dropped the square of linen she was hemstitching, “let’s make it a ‘We are Seven’ box.”
“And all write a letter to put in it,” Amanda added.
“I do think you are the dearest girls!” Blue Bonnet exclaimed enthusiastically.
“Let’s plan now,” Ruth proposed.
“Not until Blue Bonnet gets at her work!” Sarah advised.
“Sarah’s working you a motto, Blue Bonnet,—” Kitty said, “‘How doth the little busy’—and so forth, and so forth.”
“Kitty!” Sarah protested, “You know I am doing nothing of the kind.”
“Well, you can—now I’ve put the idea into your head.”