of the most splendid time you ever had, and you don't seem to mind it a bit! Why, if I were in your place my heart would be perfectly broken. And you need n't have come, either; that's the worst of it. It was just a whim of Polly's. Papa says Amy might have stayed as well as not. Why are n't you sorrier, Katy?"
"Oh, I don't know. Perhaps because I had so much as it was,—enough to last all my life, I think, though I should like to go again. You can't imagine what beautiful pictures are put away in my memory."
"I don't see that you had so awfully much," said the aggravated Clover; "you were there only a little more than six months,—for I don't count the sea,—and ever so much of that time was taken up with nursing Amy. You can't have any pleasant pictures of that part of it."
"Yes, I have, some."
"Well, I should really like to know what. There you were in a dark room, frightened to death and tired to death, with only Mrs.
