"It is a welcome gift.

Just think, Arline, we have one hundred dollars.

Your fifty, and Miss Atkins's ten makes sixty, and this makes seventy.

The twenty-five dollars I have and twenty dollars more from the four of us makes one hundred and fifteen dollars.
That will mean a great deal to those girls.

I only wish it were more." "If I had known sooner I would not have been so extravagant in buying my Christmas presents," declared Arline regretfully.