She slipped the thin parcel through the slit in the door , and then stole home again , feeling a strange sense of loss and loneliness . It was as if she had given away the last link between herself and her youth . But she did not regret it . It would give Sylvia pleasure , and that had come to be the overmastering passion of the Old Lady 's heart . The next night the light in Sylvia 's room burned very late , and the Old Lady watched it triumphantly , knowing the meaning of it . Sylvia was reading her father 's poems , and the Old Lady in her darkness read them too , murmuring the lines over and over to herself . After all , giving away the book had not mattered so very much . She had the soul of it still -- and the fly-leaf with the name , in Leslie 's writing , by which nobody ever called her now . The Old Lady was sitting on the Marshall sofa the next Sewing Circle afternoon when Sylvia Gray came and sat down beside her . The Old Lady 's hands trembled a little , and one side of a handkerchief , which was afterwards given as a Christmas present to a little olive-skinned coolie in Trinidad , was not quite so exquisitely done as the other three sides . Sylvia at first talked of the Circle , and Mrs. Marshall 's dahlias , and the Old Lady was in the seventh heaven of delight , though she took care not to show it , and was even a little more stately and finely mannered than usual . When she asked Sylvia how she liked living in Spencervale , Sylvia said , `` Very much . Everybody is so kind to me . Besides '' -- Sylvia lowered her voice so that nobody but the Old Lady could hear it -- `` I have a fairy godmother here who does the most beautiful and wonderful things for me . '' Sylvia , being a girl of fine instincts , did not look at Old Lady Lloyd as she said this . But she would not have seen anything if she had looked . The Old Lady was not a Lloyd for nothing . `` How very interesting , '' she said , indifferently . `` Is n't it ? I am so grateful to her and I have wished so much she might know how much pleasure she has given me .
I have found lovely flowers and delicious berries XXXXX my path all summer ; I feel sure she sent me my party dress .
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