Excerpt: ... it. Father and mother and Alice came into the room one after another and each exclaimed over the vacant chair. "Who's the company?" asked father. "Why the chair?" demanded Alice. "I thought you knew how to count, Mary Jane," added mother. "Didn't you know there were only four of us? You're a funny little girl!" "I can count," said Mary Jane with great dignity, "and I know there are four of us when five of us isn't here. But I had to have a chair for Dorothy." And then, for the first time, Mrs. Merrill realized ...
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Excerpt: ... it. Father and mother and Alice came into the room one after another and each exclaimed over the vacant chair. "Who's the company?" asked father. "Why the chair?" demanded Alice. "I thought you knew how to count, Mary Jane," added mother. "Didn't you know there were only four of us? You're a funny little girl!" "I can count," said Mary Jane with great dignity, "and I know there are four of us when five of us isn't here. But I had to have a chair for Dorothy." And then, for the first time, Mrs. Merrill realized that something was going on in Mary Jane's mind-something new. "Dorothy?" she asked kindly; "who is this Dorothy you have been telling me about?" "She's the little girl who comes to see me when you won't let me play with anybody come to see me," explained Mary Jane patiently, "and I'm glad she's here because I'm lonesome and I want her to stay for lunch because she's a nice little girl and I don't like people to laugh." Mrs. Merrill frowned at Mr. Merrill and Alice who showed signs of laughing and then gathered her little girl into her arms. "Have you been as lonesome as that?" she asked. "Just as lonesome as lonesome," answered Mary Jane. "I'm lonesomer than when nobody comes to see me because this time I know nobody's coming to see me even if they wouldn't anyway." "Why is she so lonesome?" asked Mr. Merrill who seemed to understand just what his little girl meant even though what she said was a little mixed. "Can't anybody play with her?" Mrs. Merrill reminded him of Junior's shower bath and of her command that Mary Jane should have no more guests till she had learned how to treat them. "I've been too busy this morning to give any lessons in treating guests," she added, "but I had planned to have a first rate lesson this afternoon. I had planned to take Mary Jane calling with me; then she could see just what good times folks can have and still be kind and polite. How would you like to go calling with me, Mary Jane?" "Really?" exclaimed...
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