"
Catalina wrote a long letter to grandmother, the contents of which she did
not care to show us. So it was as Catalina wished, and Maria promised to
take good care of the invalid.
At last the great day arrived. Paula and I, up at sunrise, scurried to the
window to look at the weather, and oh joy! It was a magnificent day without
a cloud in the sky! A little later when Teresa arrived to call us, great
was her surprise to find us all ready to start.
"What a wonderful thing," she remarked dryly, "you'd never be late to
school if you did this every morning."
After the first moment of enthusiasm, Paula strangely enough began to lose
little by little the happy atmosphere which usually surrounded her. I
discovered soon the cause. She was thinking of Catalina.
"It's going to be terribly lonely for her," she said.
"Never fear," I said, "she can go another time."
But she shook her head as if trying to throw off something painful that
seemed to be on her mind.
"Oh, Lisita, if you could but know how lonely Catalina will feel as she
sees us go without her. When I took her breakfast to her yesterday and saw
that she had been crying I simply could not bear the thought of leaving her
at home alone.
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