| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | [AN UNTHANKFUL ORPHAN] | 1 |
| II. | [THE COMING OF MISS KATHERINE] | 14 |
| III. | [MARY, FREQUENTLY MARTHA] | 27 |
| IV. | [THE STEPPED-ON AND THE STEPPERS] | 39 |
| V. | ["HERE COMES THE BRIDE!"] | 50 |
| VI. | ["MY LADY OF THE LOVELY HEART"] | 61 |
| VII. | ["STERILIZED AND FERTILIZED"] | 70 |
| VIII. | [MARY CARY'S BUSINESS] | 75 |
| IX. | [LOVE IS BEST] | 85 |
| X. | [THE REAGAN BALL] | 97 |
| XI. | [FINDING OUT] | 103 |
| XII. | [A TRUE MIRACLE] | 120 |
| XIII. | [HIS COMING] | 133 |
| XIV. | [THE HURT OF HAPPINESS] | 141 |
| XV. | [A REAL WEDDING] | 155 |
MARY CARY
I
AN UNTHANKFUL ORPHAN
y name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; but though they don't give parties or wear truly Paris clothes, things happen, and that's why I am going to write this story.
To-day I was kept in. Yesterday, too. I don't mind, for I would rather watch the lightning up here than be down in the basement with the others. There are days when I love thunder and lightning. I can't flash and crash, being just Mary Cary; but I'd like to, and when it is done for me it is a relief to my feelings.
The reason I was kept in was this. Yesterday Mr. Gaffney, the one with a sunk eye and cold in his head perpetual, came to talk to us for the benefit of our characters. He thinks it's his duty, and, just naturally loving to talk, he wears us out once a week anyhow. Yesterday, not agreeing with what he said, I wouldn't pretend I did, and I was punished prompt, of course.