such gifts. Why, I can't give you anything to make up for it--"

"And I don't want you to! You little goose! But like as not, you can
sometime do something for me worth more than a dozen sweaters."

"I hope so, I'm sure. Will you tell me if I can?"

"Yes, baby-face! I declare, Dolly, it's hard to realise you're fifteen
years old! You act about twelve,--and look ten!"

"Oh, not so bad as that!" and Dolly laughed gaily. "I s'pose I do seem
younger than I am, because I've always lived in a small town. We don't
do things like city girls."

"'Deed we don't!" exclaimed Dotty. "I used to live in the city, and
when I went to Berwick it was like a different world. But I've come to
like it now."

"I like it," said Bernice, decidedly. "I think we have a lot more fun
in Berwick than we could in New York. To live, I mean. Of course, this
visit here is lovely, but it's the novelty and the strange sights that
make it so. I wouldn't want to live in New York."

"Neither would I," and Dolly shook her head very positively.

"I would," said Alicia. "I'd just love to live here, in a house like
Uncle Jeff's, and have all these cars and servants and everything
fine."

"No, thank you," Dolly rejoined. "It's beautiful for a week, but it