The reply had been to give the girl the contents of the chest.

When the Bird Woman told Elnora, tears filled her eyes.
"I will write at once and thank her," she said.

"With all her beautiful gowns she does not need them, and I do.

They will serve for me often, and be much finer than anything I could afford.

It is lovely of her to give me the dress and of you to have it altered for me, as I never could." The Bird Woman laughed.