THE next morning, after breakfast, Mary Frances hurried to her room, hoping to have another delightful lesson.
“Aunt Maria will be so surprised to see what I’ve done,” she whispered. “And mother will be so pleased.”
“You surely will surprise them,” said the Yarn Baby, “and if I am not mistaken we will have to work with all our might to get everything ready by the time they come home.”
“Indeed we will!” said Mary Frances, getting things ready for work. “I wonder what comes next?”
“Oh, excuse me,” she exclaimed after a moment, “I must go get my dolly. I put her to bed in the playroom last night.”
When she lifted Mary Marie out of her little bed and stood her on the floor, the little thing looked at her and said, “Mamma, my tootsies are told.”