"
"By moonlight!" Evelyn said; "that will be very nice. Auntie, you and
uncle are very good to me."
"Indeed, child," returned Elsie, smiling, "you may well believe it is no
hardship for us to go to Ion on any errand; or with none save the desire
to see mamma and the rest."
Evelyn and Lulu passed the greater part of the day alone together, every
one else seemingly lacking either leisure or inclination to join them,
and the friendship grew rapidly, as is usually the case when two little
girls are thus thrown together.
Each gave a detailed history of her past life and found the other deeply
interested in it. Then they talked of the present and of the near future.
"Are you to go to school?" asked Lulu.
"No," Evelyn said with a contented smile, "I am to study at home and come
here to recite with you."
"Oh, how nice!" cried Lulu, her eyes sparkling with pleasure.
"Yes, I think it very kind in Aunt Elsie's mother and grandfather to
offer to let me do so," said Evelyn. "I shall try very hard to be
studious and well-behaved and give them no trouble.
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