She rubs her eyes with her hand as she speaks, and is almost surprised, when she draws it away, to find a tear there.
CHAPTER III.
THE CHRISTMAS CARD.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
“MAY?” Ruby says. “I wonder who that can be?”
She turns the card with its illuminated wreath of holly and conventional glistening snow scene this way and that. “It’s very pretty,” the little girl murmurs admiringly. “But who can ‘May’ be?”