“She will need a footstool with that chair,” said Cousin Alice. “I have an extra hassock in my room; I'll bring that.”
Mrs. Howell sent an old but soft and pretty comfort to spread over the chair, and which would also be handy for an additional covering in case of a cold night.
“A curtain on the window would soften the light on hot afternoons,” Miss Alice thought. So she made one of some white barred muslin she had and put it up. She also thought that as Jennie still had not much appetite, some prettier dishes than those Mrs. Scott had—they were very few, and very coarse and battered—might make the food taste better.
“I know, when I am ill,” she said to Mrs. Ashford, “the way my food is served makes a great difference.”
So she brought a cheap but pretty plate, cup, and saucer, with which Jennie was extremely delighted.
“After we all go away there wont be anybody to take flowers to Jennie,” said Edith, “and I'm afraid she'll miss them. She does enjoy them so much. I've a great mind to buy her a geranium. May I, mamma? They're only ten cents.”
“Of course you may. I think it would be very nice for Jennie and her mother to have something of the kind growing in their room,” said Mrs. Howell.
She went with Edith to the florist's, and after helping her to select a scarlet geranium, she bought a pot of mignonette and another of sweet alyssum for Edith to give to Jennie.
Marty helped Edith to carry their plants to their destination, and what rejoicing there was over that window-garden!
“It's too much! too much!” exclaimed Mrs. Scott, wiping her eyes as she looked around the now really comfortable room.