Kate's Heavenly Time

One evening Kate and Polly went to the front porch to rest until
bedtime and found a shining big new trunk sitting there, with
Kate's initials on the end, her name on the check tag, and a key
in the lock. They unbuckled the straps, turned the key, and
lifted the lid. That trunk contained underclothing, hose, shoes,
two hats, a travelling dress with half a dozen extra waists, and
an afternoon and an evening dress, all selected with especial
reference to Kate's colouring, and made one size larger than Nancy
Ellen wore, which fitted Kate perfectly. There were gloves, a
parasol, and a note which read: DEAR KATE: Here are some clothes. I am going to go North a week
after harvest. You can be spared then as well as not. Come on!
Let's run away and have one good time all by ourselves. It is my
treat from start to finish. The children can manage the farm
perfectly well. Any one of her cousins will stay with Polly, if
she will be lonely. Cut loose and come on, Kate. I am going. Of
course Robert couldn't be pried away from his precious patients;
we will have to go alone; but we do not care. We like it. Shall
we start about the tenth, on the night train, which will be
cooler? NANCY ELLEN.

"We shall!" said Kate emphatically, when she finished the note.
"I haven't cut loose and had a good time since I was married; not
for eighteen years. If the children are not big enough to take
care of themselves, they never will be. I can go as well as not."