"Oh, Hester did that; she was quite good with her, and Aunt Mary said I had better not stay, for she wanted her to grow accustomed to Hester."
"And where are you to sleep?"
"In the room with Lucy. I took off my things there, and I thought you might want me to help you."
"Oh, let me do that to-night," pleaded Lena.
"I shall be glad of help from you both. We have been idling our time away here talking instead of getting ready for dinner, and nothing is unpacked."
So saying, Mrs. Graham returned to her room, followed by the two girls, and very soon they were both busily engaged, undoing parcels, and getting out things that were required for the night. At first they delayed one another by both working at the same box, and strewing its contents over the floor. Such dreadful confusion ensued from this, that Mrs. Graham proposed that one should do the unpacking, while the other put the things away tidily in the drawers.
"Who shall unpack?" asked Lena.
"Well, I think you had better, and Milly can put away, for she knows what we shall require at first."
"I shall know soon, too, shan't I?" asked Lena; "but I like unpacking best, and seeing what you have got."
"You will never get through your work if you stop to examine and admire everything," said Mrs. Graham, as she watched her taking a good look at each thing she brought out of the box.