"Well, good-night, girls. I must hurry home," said Kitty. "Therese, mother says she shall expect you to-morrow." And she added a few words in French, to which Therese responded and went on her way.
"I don't think Kitty is very polite to be talking French before me," said Marion, as they turned toward the red house.
"Oh, that was nothing. It only meant 'Rest well and have sweet dreams.' It is a line from a French song that she sings," said Therese. "Kitty wouldn't be rude for anything, I am sure."
"Why didn't she come to school this afternoon?" asked Marion.
"She was excused because her mother came home this morning and there was a great deal to see to. Just think! Mrs. Tremaine has had some money left her in France that she didn't expect the least in the world: isn't that nice? I think it is such fun to have things come that you don't expect."
"I think they are always having things left them," remarked Marion. "There was that old lady who gave Kitty her furniture."
"Yes, but they did not get any money that time, only clothes and furniture and books. Kitty told me so herself. She says she never can have a new dress because she must wear out all Mrs. Leffington's old ones."
"I don't think she need mind that so long as they are so handsome," said Marion. "I am sure I wouldn't complain if I had such merinos and cloths for Sunday as Kitty wears to school."
"She doesn't complain, only in fun. She likes them better than new ones. Her mother won't let her have the handsomest—the silks and velvets and so on—because she says they are not suitable for a little girl. Oh, I am so glad Mrs. Tremaine has come home, only she isn't going to stay. I'll tell you something about that; only don't tell, because perhaps she wouldn't care to have it talked about till it is all settled. You know I told you that she had some property left her in France."
"Well?" said Marion, much interested and forgetting her own troubles for the minute.