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"There's nothing to prevent that, if we live outside the old B-Hive. We'll start a new B-Hive! Poor Thomasia O.!" They would miss T.O. very much indeed well, they could invite her in to tea and keep her all night! In spite of the wicked old Compact, they would keep together. "And we'll never," vowed Laura Ann for them all, "sign any more nefarious bonds!"
"Miss Thomasia O. Brown," Billy read aloud, and waved the letter in triumph, for the secret was out. The 'T' in T.O. stood for Thomasia! "Well?" bristled the Talented One, "it had to stand for something, didn't it? It's awful, I know, but I'm not to blame I didn't name myself, did I? I wish people could," she added with a sigh. "Is it for a Thomas?" questioned Laura Ann curiously.
Thomasia nodded: "There was always a Thomas in the family until they got to me. They did the best they could to make me one." She was opening the letter with careful precision. "Why, of course, it's from Mrs. Camp!" she cried delightedly. "My dear, I hope you are well and your friends have come, and Jane Cotton's Sam has not forgotten to paint the pump.
If he hasn't painted it yet, the blue paint is on a shelf in the woodhouse, and you can paint it. I'm afraid Jane Cotton's Sam won't ever amount to much. Poor Jane!" Thomasia read the letter aloud, and at this point Loraine interposed warmly: "Jane Cotton's Sam is abused! It's a shame everybody groans over him I like him.
She hung the picture of Amelia on the wall when they were all away, and then went away herself. She stayed away until nearly dark. Thomasia O. went to meet her. "I knew it all the time," she said quietly, without preface of any kind. "It's a perfect likeness." "You knew it?" said Laura Ann. "Yes, I was prowling 'round one day, to see what attics were like, and I found Amelia.
She had remembered that only T.O. Thomasia O. would be left now in the B-Hive! For all the rest had broken the Compact. Thomasia O., living all alone in the dear, shabby little rooms, presented a funny picture, for of them all she was least fitted to live alone. Even Billy could do better. "The rest of us will live together," laughed Laura Ann.
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