I'm awfully sorry I said anything to make you feel badly.

Please forget it, and forgive your loving sister,----ELTA." "Bless her dear heart!" cried the boy.

"She is the best sister in the world.

The idea of her asking my forgiveness, when it is I who should ask hers.

And I will ask it, too, the very minute I see her; for I shall never be happy until we have kissed and made up, as we used to say when we were young ones.