Miss Sarah had been meditating, now she spoke, "I think I'd try to give a good time to some persons who never have any fun, to whom life is only a grind."
"There are so many of them," added Miss Martin, timidly.
"I am afraid I have always been dreadfully selfish," sighed Miss Virginia.
"Oh, no, Virginia, you aren't that," said Miss Sarah. "Like some of the rest of us, you may have lived in a small circle, but within its bounds no one could accuse you of selfishness. Let's all promise to remember each other when we come into our fortunes," she added.
After they had gone,—Miss Martin lingering to say with shy earnestness, "I have had such a good time," and receiving in return a cordial invitation to consider herself a member of the basket society,—Norah joined Marion before the fire.
"Do you know, Wayland Leigh gave that fan to Madelaine," she said.
"Are you sure? It must have cost twenty-five or thirty dollars."
"I saw him looking at them the other day. I rather suspect his aunts have spoiled him."