“It isn’t!” said Dora. “What can it be?”
She got down from Father’s knee and took her limp stocking from the knob. In the toe was still a small package.
In the toe of hers, Lucy had just found the white Chinese kitten and was speechless with pleasure. She liked it better than Dora’s blue one.
“Because there really are white kittens,” she said.
“There are blue ones, too,” said Dora. “Aunt Margaret told me so. Blue Persian cats.”
“I don’t think they are just like yours,” said Lucy.
Dora had never seen a Persian blue, so she did not say anything. Besides, she was wondering what Miss Chandler had given her.
It was a little gold ring set with a blue stone which Mr. Merrill thought was an aquamarine.
Dora didn’t care about the name, but she liked the ring exceedingly. She slipped it on her finger. It just fitted.