"I--brought some."
"Well, you probably ought to have some other kind. You see, my dear, you
are a Forsyth of Gray Manor now." He turned to his sister. "Effie, can
you get all she needs--everything, before tomorrow at three o'clock?"
Effie's eyes danced at such a task--indeed, she could. She knew a shop
where she could buy everything that a girl might need.
"Well, I'll leave you two to make out lists. Isn't that what you have to
do?"
So, for a few hours the making of these amazing lists kept Robin's
thoughts from that little fifth floor home and Jimmie. Miss Effie began
with shoes and finished with hats, with little abbreviations in brackets
to include caps and scarfs and all sorts of things. "It is very cold in
Wassumsic," she explained, "and you will live a great deal out of doors.
It is very lovely," she added, making a round period after "sweater."
And there was another list which included a wrist watch and a writing
set. "They can send on most of these things," she pondered.
Robin slyly pinched herself to know that she was still a
living-breathing girl; all seemed as unreal as though she had slipped
away into a magician's world.
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