She loved her mother; she loved Squire Plausaby, her step-father; she loved cousin Isa, as she called her step-father's niece; she loved--well, no matter, she would have told you that she loved nobody more than Brother Albert.
And now that Brother Albert was coming to the new home in the new land he had never seen before, Katy's heart was in her eyes.

She would show him so many things he had never seen, explain how the pocket-gophers built their mounds, show him the nestful of flying-squirrels--had he ever seen flying-squirrels?
And she would show him Diamond Lake, and the speckled pickerel among the water-plants.

And she would point out the people, and entertain Albert with telling him their names and the curious gossip about them.

It was so fine to know something that even Albert, with all his learning, did not know.

And she would introduce Albert to _him_.