I had her out of the frame she'd be lovelier than any doll I own.

"It didn't take me more than ten minutes to whip out my little knife,
and cut her right out from the background, but say! After I'd cut her
out, she didn't look nearly as pretty as I had thought she would. Just
look at her!

"The paint looks real dauby when you get close up to her."

"Why, Gwen Harcourt!" cried Princess Polly; "you truly did cut her
from the picture!"

"Of course I did. Did you really s'pose I'd tell you I did if I didn't?"

"You might have been joking when you said it," said Polly.

"Well, I wasn't joking," Gwen replied, "and now I don't know where to
put this, now I have it."

"What did you mean to do, when you first thought of cutting the picture
out?" questioned Rose.

"Oh, I thought I'd keep her in the dolls' house, but she looks bigger
in my hand than she did in the frame. I don't believe she'd go into
the doll's house, and I don't b'lieve I want her to, for really I don't
care for her. Do either of you want her?"

She extended her arm, holding the picture at arm's length, while she
looked from one to the other.