And he was just wondering how he was going to get Aunt Jane to help him when she was sent for and asked to go to an old friend who was sick.

And he told her to go, by all means to go.

Then he got Cousin Grace to come here.

He said he knew Cousin Grace, and he was very sure she would know how to help him to let me stay Marie.

So he talked it over with her--how they would let me laugh, and sing and play the piano all I wanted to, and wear the clothes I brought with me, and be just as near as I could be the way I was in Boston.
"And to think, after all my preparation for Marie, you should _be_ Mary already, when you came," he finished.
"Yes.