[ Miss Eldon's visit ]
KATE'S ORDEAL
CHAPTER I.
THE MESSAGE.
o you think Katie Haydon is pretty—I don't?" and the speaker glanced at her own bright curls as she spoke.
"Well, I don't know whether she is exactly pretty, but she always looks nice, and then she is so pleasant and merry, and——"
"And so vain and stuck-up," put in the first speaker again.
"Oh, how can you say so?" said another, a plain, quiet-looking girl, who had not spoken before. "Mother says she would make such a nice nurse-maid; so quiet and bright as she is, children would be sure to take to her."