The cots and mattresses were put in the sun to air.

The toys had been stored in the nurse's room.

These were now brought out and inspected.
"I think I'll have the other end of the room finished off as a kindergarten," said Mary.

"Then we'll be able to take care of any children up to school age, and their mothers won't have to worry a bit." She showed him where she wished the partition built, and as he ran his rule across the distance, she noticed a scar across the knuckles of his right hand.
"That's where I dressed it, that time," she thought.

"Isn't life queer! He was in France for more than a year, but the only scar that I can see is the one he got--that morning--" Something of this may have shown in her eyes for when Archey straightened and looked at her, he blushed ("He'll never get over that!" thought Mary)--and hurried off to find the carpenters.
These preparations were completed only just in time.
On Thursday she went to New York to select her kindergarten equipment.