On the whole, I do not think that the School-Committeeman found a very forward creature in the solemn-faced little girl with the tight curls and the terrible red-and-green "plaid." These awful audiences did not always end with the handshaking.
Sometimes the great personages asked me to write to them, and exchanged addresses with me.

Some of these correspondences continued through years, and were the source of much pleasure, on one side at least.

And Arlington Street took notice when I received letters with important-looking or aristocratic-looking letterheads.

Lizzie McDee also took notice.

_I_ saw to that..