Estelle ventured to speak.
"But only girls spin," she said. "You'd never be able to spin, Ray."
Raymond laughed.
"Everybody's got to spin, it seems," he answered.
"Except the lilies," declared Estelle gravely. "'They toil not, neither do they spin,' you know."
Mr. Waldron regarded his daughter with respect.
"Just imagine," he said, "at her age. They've made her a member of the Field Botanists' Club. Only eleven years old and invited to join a grown-up club!"
Raymond was somewhat impressed.
"Fancy a kid like you knowing anything about botany," he said.
"I don't," answered the child. "I'm only just beginning. Why, I haven't mastered the grasses yet. The flowers are easy, of course, but the grasses are ever so difficult."