“Yes, I did some school work, but more zenana work.”
“What is zenana work?”
Just then Mrs. Thurston noticed that preparations were being made to drive on, so she merely replied,
“Come down to the village and see me, and we will have a good missionary talk.”
“Thank you ever so much,” said Marty. “I do hope mamma will let me go.”
Evaline was quite overcome when she learned that Mrs. Thurston was a “real live missionary,” and said,
“She's the first one I ever saw. I wonder if they're all as nice as that.”
After consultation with her mother, Marty decided to give half her “flower money” —which altogether amounted to eighty cents—to the mountain band, and keep the other half for the home band. “Because, you see, this is all out-and-out missionary money; there's no tithing to be done,” she said.
Evaline never felt so large in her life as she did when going to the band meeting the next Sunday, with her eighty cents ready to hand to Hugh Campbell.
The Saturday following that memorable Thursday, Miss Fanny and Miss Mary again presented themselves at the farmhouse, where they were welcomed like old friends. After some pleasant chat, and a lunch of gingerbread and fresh buttermilk, Miss Fanny said,