have won the place, which, you recollect, I once told you an invalid
should try to gain, of being to everybody 'The Heart of the House.'"

"Oh, Cousin Helen, don't!" said Katy, her eyes filling with sudden
tears. "I haven't been brave. You can't think how badly I sometimes have
behaved--how cross and ungrateful I am, and how stupid and slow. Every
day I see things which ought to be done, and I don't do them. It's too
delightful to have you praise me--but you mustn't. I don't deserve it."

But although she said she didn't deserve it I think that Katy did!