"Don't you like it?" answered Agnes.
"I wish I had one," said Alice wistfully.
"If you will paint one for yourself I'll have it framed," promised Agnes.
Then up came Jane, and once more they set to work.
Agnes found a piece of red valance for the top of the window, and got out two clean toilet-covers, and they laid the carpet down, hung the frame on the wall, and Alice dusted the mantelshelf. Then they paused and looked round.
"It is lovely!" said Minnie. "I wish it were my room."
"So does everybody," said Alice. "Is it really finished, Agnes?"
"I think so. Now as we still have half-an-hour, let us go and see what can be done for poor old Hugh. His room looks rather forlorn as it is."
"So it does," said Minnie; "and the place where John's bed stood is all bare."
"He wants a table dreadfully," said Alice, "now John's is gone."