It won't be so very long before we shall be going home, and, my word, it is worth while going away just to have the going home again.

So cheer up, old girl; it isn't every one that can boast of a brother like me.

Hurry up and write, just to show you appreciate your blessings." "There _are_ some things to make up for being away," thought Kitty, and she wrote Dan a long, bright, hopeful letter, and another to Betty.
A week or so later she wrote to her father to broach her desire to bring home Pamela with her.

She thought it wise to mention it early, as it would take some time to reconcile Aunt Pike to the thought.

For more than a week she had no reply and no letter from any one, and she was just beginning to worry very much about it when a letter came from her father.
"I shall be delighted to welcome your young friend," he wrote, "and I am very glad you have one you want to bring home with you.