Very carefully he looked at the mended place 116

"We thought you might like a dog," began Suzanna 206




BOOK I




SUZANNA STIRS THE FIRE





CHAPTER I

THE TUCKED-IN DAY


Maizie wanted to sleep a little longer, but though the clock had but
just chimed six Suzanna was up and had drawn the window curtain letting
in a flood of sunshine. Maizie lay watching her sister, her gray eyes
still blurred with sleep; not wide and interested as a little later they
would be. Her soft little features expressing her naïve personality
seemed unsubtle, yet of contours so lovely in this period just after
babyhood that one longed to cuddle her.