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Oh, how delightful that will be! And Mamma and I have been
settling that we will have a little table for the smallest creatures,
because the elder sisters get no time to eat if they are attending to
them, and if the little ones are all together, everyone will come and
help them.'
'The old women in the Alms-houses will,' said Katherine.
'Yes; and Dora will manage that nicely too, the table will not be too
high for her to reach, and she will be very happy to be able to wait
on her little class. And they are to have tea and cake, instead of
dinner, for we do not want to have more cooking than can be helped,
that people may not be prevented from going to church, and the
children will be thirsty after being in church all the morning.'
'But we have a dinner-party, do not we?' said Katherine.
'Yes, but our youth and innocence will save us from being much
plagued by it,' said Elizabeth.
'Oh! I thought you and Anne at least would dine with the company,'
said Katherine.
'So Mamma thought,' said Elizabeth; 'but then she recollected that if
we did, and not Harriet, Mrs.


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