And perhaps brought some of our friends with us ? '' `` Oh , if you only would ! '' breathed Miss Sally . Mary laughed and , obeying a sudden impulse , bent and kissed Miss Sally 's cheek . `` We 'll come then , '' she promised . `` Please look upon us as your ` steady company ' henceforth . '' The girls kept their word . Thereafter , nearly every Saturday of the summer found them taking tea with Miss Sally at Golden Gate . Sometimes they came alone ; sometimes they brought other girls . It soon became a decided `` fad '' in their set to go to see Miss Sally . Everybody who met her loved her at sight . It was considered a special treat to be taken by the Seymours to Golden Gate . As for Miss Sally , her cup of happiness was almost full . She had `` company '' to her heart 's content and of the very kind she loved -- bright , merry , fun-loving girls who devoured her dainties with a frank zest that delighted her , filled the quaint old rooms with laughter and life , and chattered to her of all their plans and frolics and hopes . There was just one little cloud on Miss Sally 's fair sky . `` If only Cousin Abner 's girls would come ! '' she once said wistfully to Mary . `` Nobody can quite take the place of one 's own , you know . My heart yearns after them . '' Mary was very silent and thoughtful as she drove back to Trenton that night .
Two days afterwards , she went XXXXX Mrs. Gardiner 's lawn party .
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