"What will you do with three woolen quilts, Katy, when I gave you already nice blankets? These we will put in a chest in the garret. It will go for your Haus Steir [wedding outfit]."
Susannah Kuhns brought two jars of peaches and a glass or two of jelly, being firmly of the conviction that boarding-schools and colleges were especially constructed for the starving of the young.
"The English people do not eat anyhow like we do. I was once to some English people in Allentown and they had no spread at all for on their bread. Now you will have spreads, Katy."
Finally even Alvin Koehler caught the spirit and brought a present for Katy, a tie from his store. Alvin allowed no cloudy recollections of the past to darken his sunshine.
Sarah Ann came, too, with a silk quilt and a silk sofa pillow of the "Log Cabin" pattern, the product of long saving of brightly colored scraps.
"You are to have these things, Katy," said she. "You would 'a' had them anyhow when I was gone, and—"
"Now, Sarah Ann!" laughed Katy. "That will be years to come, Sarah Ann!"
Thus cheered, Sarah Ann dried her tears.
"Everybody in Millerstown is sorry you are going away," said she. "You are like the church or the schoolhouse, you are ours."
"I love Millerstown," said Katy: "I love Millerstown dearly."