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p>Short Stories 1904

A Fortunate Mistake 1904

An Unpremeditated Ceremony 1904

At the Bay Shore Farm 1904

Elizabeth's Child 1904

Freda's Adopted Grave 1904

How Don Was Saved 1904

Miss Madeline's Proposal 1904

Miss Sally's Company 1904

Mrs. March's Revenge 1904

Nan 1904

Natty of Blue Point 1904

Penelope's Party Waist 1904

The Girl and the Wild Race 1904

The Promise of Lucy Ellen 1904

The Pursuit of the Ideal 1904

The Softening of Miss Cynthia 1904

Them Notorious Pigs 1904

Why Not Ask Miss Price? 1904

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A Fortunate Mistake

"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" fretted Nan Wallace, twisting herself about uneasily on the sofa in her pretty room. "I never thought before that the days could be so long as they are now."

"Poor you!" said her sister Maude sympathetically. Maude was moving briskly about the room, putting it into the beautiful order that Mother insisted on. It was Nan's week to care for their room, but Nan had sprained her ankle three days ago and could do nothing but lie on the sofa ever since. And very tired of it, too, was wide-awake, active Nan.

"And the picnic this afternoon, too!" she sighed. "I've looked forward to it all summer. And it's a perfect day--and I've got to stay here and nurse this foot."

Nan looked vindictively at the bandaged member, while Maude leaned out of the window to pull a pink climbing rose. As she did so she nodded to someone in the village street below.

"Who is passing?" asked Nan.

"Florrie Hamilton."

"Is she going to the picnic?" asked Nan indifferently.

"No. She wasn't asked. Of course, I don't suppose she expected to be. She knows she isn't in our set. She must feel horribly out of place at school. A lot of the girls say it is ridiculous of her father to send her to Miss Braxton's private school--a factory overseer's daughter."

"She ought to have been asked to the picnic all the same," said Nan

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