Kate, joyfully. "I couldn't possibly crowd into anything you
wear, but it would almost tickle me to death to have Nancy Ellen
know you let me take your things, when she won't even offer me a
dud of her old stuff; I never remotely hoped for any of the new."

"You shall have my cape and hat, anyway. The cape is new and very
fashionable. Come upstairs and try the hat," said Agatha.

The cape was new and fashionable as Agatha had said; it would not
fasten at the neck, but there would be no necessity that it should
during July and August, while it would improve any dress it was
worn with on a cool evening. The hat Kate could not possibly use
with her large, broad face and mass of hair, but she was almost as
pleased with the offer as if the hat had been most becoming. Then
Agatha brought out her telescope, in which Kate laid the cape
while Agatha wrote her a check for one hundred and twenty dollars,
and told her where and how to cash it. The extra twenty was to
buy a pair of new walking shoes, some hose, and a hat, before she
went to her train. When they went downstairs Adam, Jr., had a
horse hitched and Adam, 3d, drove her to her home, where, at the
foot of the garden, they took one long survey of the landscape and
hid the telescope behind the privet bush. Then Adam drove away
quietly, Kate entered the dooryard from the garden, and soon
afterward went to the wash room and hastily ironed her clothing.

Nancy Ellen had gone to visit a neighbour girl, so Kate risked her
remaining until after church in the evening. She hurried to their
room and mended all her own clothing she had laid out. Then she
deliberately went over Nancy Ellen's and helped herself to a pair
of pretty nightdresses, such as she had never owned, a white