"Poor child, she shall have one!" Alene held out for inspection a missive duly stamped and addressed.
"Now, Ivy, you might address Hermione's, and I'll send Vera's."
Ivy made a grimace.
"I'm glad you don't put it the other way!"
"I'd like to ask Hermione to help in our tissue-paper work, but we can't ask her without Vera."
"Hermione's a dear, so for her sake let's set up with Vera," said Laura.
Ivy gave a prodigious groan.
"'Take the bitter with the sweet,' though it will be Vera bitter."
So it came to pass that the library was the scene of many more busy hours, and the working-force of the Happy-Go-Luckys was increased by the Ramsey girls, who threw themselves heartily into the making of tissue-paper caps, rosettes and flowers, in which Vera proved an adept, and her productions were so much admired and praised by the others that she became quite amiable, and gave them no reason to regret the invitation.
The time went fast enough to these busy workers, though it seemed very slow to the rest of the young people.