"I guess I won't be homesick, if I can do as I want, and have plenty of candy and cake," said Maude, carelessly. "I am glad Ruby Harper is here, I shall not be so lonely then."
"You must give her some of the things I send you," said her mother.
"I will see," said Maude. "If she does as I want her to I will, but I am not going to give them all away. I want to keep some for myself."
"Now your hair looks all right," said her mother, giving one last brush to the waves of tightly crimped hair that fell below Maude's waist. "We will go downstairs and see the school-room, and look about the garden."
In the mean time Ruby had been helping Aunt Emma unpack her little trunk and she was so impatient to see what was in the mysterious package that Orpah had given her that she could scarcely wait for the trunk to be unlocked.
She lifted it out, and laid it on the bed, and untied the string.
"See if you can guess what is in it," she said to Aunt Emma.
"I guess a work-box," Aunt Emma said.
"I can't guess at all," Ruby answered, as she opened the paper, and found another wrapping of tissue paper covering the gift.
"Oh, Aunt Emma, what do you spose it is? See how carefully it is wrapped up."