I am going to stay home with Aunty and Uncle . It is so sweet to say home and know what it means . `` Aunty says you must come and spend all your next vacation with us . You see , I have lots of vacation plans now , even for a year ahead . After all , there is no need of the blue pills ! `` I feel like a new creature , made over from the heart and soul out . I look back with shame and contrition on the old Constance . I want you to forget her and only remember your grateful friend , the new Constance . '' Ida 's New Year Cake Mary Craig and Sara Reid and Josie Pye had all flocked into Ida Mitchell 's room at their boarding-house to condole with each other because none of them was able to go home for New Year 's . Mary and Josie had been home for Christmas , so they did n't really feel so badly off . But Ida and Sara had n't even that consolation . Ida was a third-year student at the Clifton Academy ; she had holidays , and nowhere , so she mournfully affirmed , to spend them . At home three brothers and a sister were down with the measles , and , as Ida had never had them , she could not go there ; and the news had come too late for her to make any other arrangements . Mary and Josie were clerks in a Clifton bookstore , and Sara was stenographer in a Clifton lawyer 's office . And they were all jolly and thoughtless and very fond of one another . `` This will be the first New Year 's I have ever spent away from home , '' sighed Sara , nibbling chocolate fudge . `` It does make me so blue to think of it . And not even a holiday -- I 'll have to go to work just the same . Now Ida here , she does n't really need sympathy . She has holidays -- a whole fortnight -- and nothing to do but enjoy them . ''
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