"I do, Mrs. Travilla, because there is absolutely nothing to be done."
"Poor girl, how sorry I am for her! blindness must be so terrible," Lucy remarked to her friend after the doctor had gone.
"Yes," Elsie answered thoughtfully, "but I do not give up hope for her yet."
"Dr. Morton is considered very skilful."
"Still he may be mistaken, and I shall not rest till I have made every effort to save her sight."
Little Elsie and her sister had already become deeply interested in poor Sally, and were laying plans to help her.
"What can we do, Elsie?" queried Vi, in an under tone, drawing her sister aside.
"She'll want clothes; she had on a very old faded calico dress."
"And not a bow or pin; just an old linen collar around her neck," remarked Gertrude, joining them; "and her dress was ever so old-fashioned and patched besides."
"Let's put our pocket money together, and buy her a new dress," proposed Vi.