"But the holes in your ears will grow together; I shall give you some of mine."
Therewith she ran to her room, and in a few moments returned with a pair of earrings.
Melanie did not attempt to hide her delight at the gift.
"Why, my own had just such sapphires, only the stones were not so large."
And she kissed Czipra, and allowed her to place the earrings in her ears.
With the earrings came a brooch. Czipra pinned it in Melanie's collar, and her eyes rested on the pretty collar itself: she tried it, looked at it closely and could not discover "how it was made."
"Don't you know that work? it is crochet, quite a new kind of fancy-work, but very easy. Come, I will show you right away."
Thereupon she took out two crochet needles and a reel of cotton from her work-case, and began to explain the work to Czipra: then she gave it to her to try. Her first attempt was very successful. Czipra had learned something from the new-comer, and remarked that she would learn much more from her.
Czipra spent an hour with Melanie and an hour later came to the conclusion that she was only now beginning—to be a girl.
At supper they appeared with their arms round each other's necks.