to the gay music, and looking at the children in their prettiest
clothes, and at the nurses rolling the babies in the pretty
carriages with the beautiful pink, and white, and blue parasols over
the babies' heads.

Then Sister Helen Vincula said: ``Bessie Bell, I am going across the
long bridge to see some ladies and to tell them Good-bye, because we
are going away tomorrow.

And Sister Helen Vincula said: ``Now, will you stay right here on
this stone bench till I come back for you?''

Bessie Bell said, ``Yes, Sister Helen Vincula.''

So Sister Helen Vincula went away across the long bridge to see the
ladies and to tell them Good-bye.

Bessie Bell did not know much about going away, and she did not
understand about it at all, so she did not care at all about it.

She just sat on the stone bench with her little pink hands folded on
her blue checked apron, and looked at the children in their
prettiest clothes, and at the babies, and at the parasols.

She loved so to look, and she loved so to listen to the pretty gay
music that she did not notice that a lady had come to the stone
bench, and had seated herself just where Sister Helen Vincula had
sat before she went to see the ladies and to tell them Good-bye.

There were many other ladies on the Mall, and many ladies passed in