"Any room on the sofa for a fellow?" asked Hugh.
"Oh, yes! plenty."
"Sit next me," said Minnie.
"All right. I say, Agnes, how strange it will seem to have Christmas Day without them!"
"Yes; but we can make it happy if we try," said Agnes.
"How?"
"By being happy."
"That's all very well," said Hugh; "but then, you know, Agnes, being made happy depends on outward things."
"Of course it does; and on inward things too. If we have got a well of happiness inside us, it will make everything round us seem bright and beautiful."