I have mine yet . `` Soon after this our mother died and our household was broken up . Penelope went to live with her aunt and I went West with Father . This was long ago , you know , when travelling and correspondence were not the easy , matter-of-course things they are now . After a few years I lost touch with my half-sister . I married out West and have lived there all my life . I never knew what had become of Penelope . But tonight , when I saw you come in in that waist made of the rosebud silk , the whole past rose before me and I felt like a girl again . My dear , I am a very lonely old woman , with nobody belonging to me . You do n't know how delighted I am to find that I have two grandnieces . '' Penelope had listened silently , like a girl in a dream . Now she patted Mrs. Fairweather 's soft old hand affectionately . `` It sounds like a storybook , '' she said gaily . `` You must come and see Doris . She is such a darling sister . I would n't have had this waist if it had n't been for her . I will tell you the whole truth -- I do n't mind it now . Doris made my party waist for me out of the lining of an old silk quilt of Grandmother Hunter 's that Aunt Adella sent us . '' Mrs. Fairweather did go to see Doris the very next day , and quite wonderful things came to pass from that interview . Doris and Penelope found their lives and plans changed in the twinkling of an eye .
They were both XXXXX go and live with Aunt Esther -- as Mrs. Fairweather had said they must call her .
Penelope after for if in like of to with years