`` I 've asked some of the girls who board here in to have some cake , I 'm so glad to be able to give them something -- they 've all been so good to me . They are all clerks in stores and some of them are so tired and lonely . It 's so nice to have a pleasure to share with them . Wo n't you stay ? '' `` I 'd like to , '' laughed Ida , `` but I have some guests of my own invited in for tonight . I must hurry home , for they will most surely be waiting for me . '' She laughed again as she thought what else the guests would be waiting for . But her face was sober enough as she walked home . `` But I 'm glad I left the cake with her , '' she said resolutely . `` Poor little thing ! It means so much to her . It meant only ' a good feed , ' as Josie says , to me . I 'm simply going to make it my business next term to be good friends with the other Ida Mitchell . I 'm afraid we third-year girls are very self-centred and selfish . And I know what I 'll do ! I 'll write to Abby Morton in Trenton to send me Mrs. Henderson 's address , and I 'll write her a letter and ask her not to let Ida know she did n't send the cake . '' Ida went into a confectionery store and invested in what Josie Pye was wont to call `` ready-to-wear eatables '' -- fancy cakes , fruit , and candies . When she reached her room she found it full of expectant girls , with Miss Monroe enthroned in the midst of them -- Miss Monroe in a wonderful evening dress of black lace and yellow silk , with roses in her hair and pearls on her neck -- all donned in honour of Ida 's little celebration . I wo n't say that , just for a moment , Ida did n't regret that she had given up her cake . `` Good evening , Miss Mitchell , '' cried Mary Craig gaily .
`` Walk right XXXXX and make yourself at home in your own room , do !
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