wants to
do a great many more things for me than I really
need. But the greatest difficulty of all is that
Elsie isn't fond of walking, and I do miss my
tramps dreadfully. We walk to school and back
every day, but it isn't far, and in the afternoon
Elsie is always having engagements. So I go
driving with Aunt Julia, and, oh, but it does seem
slow! Aunt Julia hates to drive fast, and I
sometimes feel as if I would give anything to jump
out of the carriage and have one good run. I know
I could easily keep up with those horses if it
were only proper to run behind the carriage, but
of course it isn't.

"I ought not to object to going out with Aunt
Julia, for she has been very good to me. She is
having some perfectly lovely dresses made for me,
and has bought me two simply wonderful hats. I am
not sure whether Mother would quite approve of all
my new clothes. Some of them do look very
grown-up, but then the girls here are all much
more grown-up than I had any idea they would be.
Elsie puts up her hair, and wanted me to put mine
up, too, but I knew Mother wouldn't like it, and
Uncle Henry said I was right.

"I have been at school every day since Monday, and
like it very much indeed. It is not a large
school, only a class of twelve girls. The
teacher's name is Miss Lothrop, and Elsie and
several of the other girls have been going to her
since they were quite little. Miss Lothrop is
lovely, and all the girls have been very kind and
polite to me. The two I like best are Lulu Bell
and Winifred Hamilton. Elsie says they are both
very young for their age, and I think perhaps that
is the reason I like them better than some of the
others. Winifred is only thirteen, but she is just
as sweet as she can be, and Lulu is awfully
pretty, and a great favorite. Carol Hastings is
another girl in the class, and Elsie's most
intimate friend. She is only fourteen, but seems
much older. I wonder why New York girls seem to
care so much about boys. I like a nice boy ever so
much myself, but I can't see the use of giggl