"I know Matilda is a wonderful child," said Anne, "but her time will come too, mamma; and she will find it makes a difference whether she is dressed one way or another."
"I think that now," observed Matilda.
"Anybody that has to fasten Tilly's dresses knows that," laughed Maria. "I don't make half so much fuss."
"I wish you did," said her mother. "You are not near careful enough in putting on your things. Now putting on is half the battle."
The argument lasted till Tilly and Maria went back to the consideration of South America, which was brought down-stairs to the lamp.
"You haven't got the Amazon right," said Matilda; "and Rio Janeiro is too far down; and it's all crooked—don't you see?"
"No!" said Maria; "and if it is, Ailie Swan needn't have said hers was better."
"You asked her."
"Well, if I did?"
"What could she say?"