"
Finally, Jasmine and Poppy both returned to their respective homes,
tired, but wonderfully happy little girls.
Mrs. Ellsworthy also laid her head that night on her pillow with a
wonderful sense of satisfaction.
"Even if they do not come to me--although they must come," she
soliloquized, "I am glad--I shall all my life be glad that I gave
Jasmine a happy day."
CHAPTER LI.
A LETTER.
A morning or two after this, when Daisy had greatly advanced towards
convalescence, and was sitting up in Hannah's tiny little sitting-room
to partake of a very dainty little breakfast, Primrose received a long
letter from Miss Egerton. This was what it contained:--
"MY DEAR PRIMROSE,
"You of course know that that wicked man Dove has received the
sentence which he so richly deserves. Alas, we cannot get back all the
stolen money, but we must manage without it, dear, and you are never
even to talk of repaying me for the furnishing of dear little Daisy's
Palace Beautiful. It has been a joy to me to have you, dear, and I
hope you will be able to bring Daisy back with you, and to live here
in peace and comfort next winter. Dear Primrose, it is more and more
evident to me that young girls should not venture to come to London
alone.
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