“Very.”

“Where does she live?”

“In Hilltop.”

“Oh! I didn’t s’pose she lived in Hilltop.”

“There,” said Aunt Charlotte, “now this next house is Mrs. Adams’s, where you will see the gold-fishes.”

But Flaxie did not care just then for the gold-fishes.

“Auntie, don’t you think Lucy ought to have some mittens?”

She spoke cheerily, as if mittens were the very thing, and the only thing Lucy needed.

“And, auntie, I can crochet!”

“Is it possible?” said Aunt Charlotte, thinking how many things Flaxie had learned that little Milly knew nothing about. “How much can you crochet?”