“Take me walk, Mamma?” asked Mary Marie.
Mary Frances looked at the fairy.
“Shall I take her?” she asked; “and may I leave her sweater on?”
“Take her, by all means,” answered the fairy; “and, if you wish, you may leave her sweater on.”
“But suppose someone asks me who made it?” Mary Frances said.
“Just say that some dear friends of yours helped make it,” the fairy told her.
“Will Mary Marie stay alive?” Mary Frances asked.
“The Queen of Fairies told me that she would be real while you are learning to crochet and knit, except when any other person than yourself looked at her. Then she will turn into a doll again.”
“Oh, isn’t this wonderful!” exclaimed the little girl, putting on Mary Marie’s cap. “I’ll try to take a walk where no one will notice us—and I’ll come early for a lesson to-morrow. I love my lessons so much that I never want to stop learning.”