"That's a very good thing," said Matilda smiling.
"What shall I do with it? Do your poor people want anything?"
"Sarah Staples? O no! they are getting on nicely. Sarah has learned how to sew on a machine, or partly learned; and she gets work to do now; and Mrs. Staples is stronger, and is able to take in washing. O no; they are getting along very well."
"There must be others," said David thoughtfully.
"Yes, plenty I suppose; only we don't know them, David! perhaps Sarah knows or her mother."
"What if we were to go and ask them?"
Matilda decided that it was a capital plan; and they arranged to go the next Saturday afternoon, when David would be at leisure. And the week seemed long till the Saturday came.
"Pink," said Norton at their dinner, "I will take you into the Park this afternoon."
"O thank you, Norton! But—I can't go. I have an engagement to go to see Sarah Staples."
"Sarah Staples! Sarah Staples can wait, and I can't. I have only one Saturday afternoon a week. It'll be splendid this afternoon, Pink. The Park is all green and flowery, and it's sure to be full. I'm going just at the fullest time."