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MacDonald was glad to have invited him. Probably in all their lives the Friendlessers never forgot the wonderful table to which they were led when refreshments were served, and which they talked of for weeks afterward. Here there was no stint and the decorations were made as beautiful as possible.
"I know my sister will," said Edna. "And mine," echoed Dorothy. "There is one thing I hope you won't mind my saying," said Margaret; "mother says please not to wear party frocks, and not to dress up much, on account of the Friendlessers, you know, for of course they won't have any." "Of course not," agreed the girls.
"How soon is the party to be?" asked Jennie. "Next Saturday afternoon. The Friendlessers can come then better than any other time, and besides we live out of town, and it will be easier for everyone to come in the afternoon." "I shall come," said Dorothy decidedly, "and I think it is a beautiful idea for you to have the Friendlessers." "And of course I shall come," put in Jennie.
The question of boys did come up later when Mrs. MacDonald asked Margaret if she did not think it would be well to invite Frank and Charley Conway, as one of the "Friendlessers" was a boy. The two Porter boys who came out often to play with the Conway boys, were thought of and were invited, and when Edna returned home on Friday evening Cousin Ben informed her that he, too, was going.
I shall have to ask, you see, because it seems to me that of all the people I know, the Friendlessers are the very ones who ought to come when it is to celebrate my coming away from there, and then, too they don't have good times like we do." The girls all called the Home of the Friendless "The Friendless" and the children there, "The Friendlessers" so they knew quite well whom Margaret meant.
"Mother says we can have just as good a time if we are not dressed up and as long as it is going to be in the daytime it won't make so much difference." "Let's go tell the other girls," suggested Edna. They hunted up Agnes, Celia and the rest of the club members and did not find one who objected to the presence of the "Friendlessers."
Then mother said, 'Very well, only the others may not want to come if you have poor children like them, and you'd better ask the girls, and if they refuse you can make up your mind which you would rather have, the girls of the club or the Friendlessers." "Oh, Margaret, you know we won't care," said Edna earnestly. "I knew you wouldn't, but I didn't know about them all.
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