Linda entered with exactly
the same self-possession that characterized her at home. She
shook hands with Mrs. Whiting, Mary Louise, and Donald, and then
she said quietly: "Eileen and I were gathering cress and we
stopped to leave you some for your dinner." With this
explanation she introduced Eileen to Mrs. Whiting. Mary Louise
immediately sprang up and recalled their meeting at Riverside.
Donald remembered a meeting he did not mention. It was only a
few minutes until Linda was seated beside Donald, interesting
herself in his lessons. Eileen begged to be shown the pretty
handkerchiefs that Mary Louise was making. An hour later Linda
refused an invitation to dinner because Katy would be expecting
them. When she arose to go, Eileen was carrying a small square
of blue-green linen. Carefully pinned to it was a patch of white
with a spray of delicate flowers outlined upon it, and a skein of
pink silk thread. She had been initiated into the thrillingly
absorbing feminine accomplishment of making sport handkerchiefs.
When they left Eileen was included naturally, casually,
spontaneously, in their invitation to Linda to run in any time
she would. Mary Louise had said she would ride out with Donald
in few days and see how the handkerchiefs were coming on, and
more instruction and different stitches and patterns were
necessary, she would love to teach them. So Linda realized that
Mary Louise had been told about the trousseau.
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