"What an awful fib!" cried Flora. "There she is; don't I see her through the door?"
"But that's just the way some of the fine folks do," replied Nellie, laughing at Flora's earnestness.
The Christmas present.
"It is an awful story, and I wouldn't say it even in fun."
Nellie said she would not say it again, only she wanted to have Miss Fanny do just as the big folks did. And so they played all the afternoon, though Lady Jane did not honor them with her company. All the dollies paid lots of visits; and Flora went home.
