The other Ida blushed with delight . `` I 'd love to be friends with you , '' she said slowly . `` I 've often thought I 'd like to know you . Is n't it odd that we have the same name ? It was so nice of you to come and see me . I -- I 'd love to have you come often . '' `` I will , '' said Ida heartily . `` Perhaps you will stay the evening , '' suggested the other Ida . `` 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 XXXXX be good friends with the other Ida Mitchell .
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