In the first place, Carolyn Amanda quite filled the little girl's idea of what an infant should be. She was no "skinny" baby. And she was good as good! Then Carolyn had to call on all her old friends about Sunrise Cove and the Corners. She positively had to spend an afternoon with Chet Gormley's mother; and she took tea there as well. Mrs. Gormley's belief in the ultimate business success of her son, now that Mr. Stagg seemed to consider him of some importance in the hardware store, was more than touching. Much as Carolyn May liked Chet she realized that he was, like his mother, just a little "queer." Mr. Jedidiah Parlow observed: "If that Chet Gormley ain't a ha'f-innocent 'tain't his mother's fault. She's been fillin' up his head with fool idees ever since he got into short pants. My soul! Does seem a pity that some boys has to have mothers at all. If they could have two fathers instead, they'd turn out some good in the world, I vow!" But, then, Mr. Parlow made out that he was a regular woman hater and could only see their foibles. But Mrs. Gormley was undeniably silly about Chet. "Of course," Chet's mother said to Carolyn May, eying the little girl with a birdlike slyness, "I don't s'pose Mr. Stagg's ready to make Chet a full partner in the store right at first. But I guess he's dreadful keen about keepin' Chet satisfied, ain't he?" "Oh, I am sure Uncle Joe thinks a great deal of Chet," the little girl agreed kindly. "Um-m! Yes!" Mrs. Gormley said, and nodded her head seriously, but a good deal like one of those automatons Carolyn had often seen in candy-store windows. "Last Christmas he raised Chet's wages a whole ha'f dollar a week and now he's promised him another raise this Fourth. That's two raises in a year." "Isn't that nice!" exclaimed her visitor. "And if he keeps on," said the sanguine mother, "it'll soon be cheaper for Mr. Stagg to make Chet a partner in the business than to pay him a salary." That the woman (and perhaps Chet himself) expected the good offices of Carolyn May to help boost the boy in the estimation of Mr. Joseph Stagg, did not detract from the fact that they both loved the little girl and were delighted by having her to tea. She was regaled with the very nicest eatables from Mrs. Gormley's larder; and Prince was given a great platter of chicken bones which were really only half picked. Chet walked home with Carolyn to the Corners after supper. It made her feel very much grown up. Never had she been escorted home by a boy before. She had to write Edna Price about it the very next day. "UNCLE JOES AT THE CORNERS, JULEY 1. "_Dear Edna_: "I am havvin a awful good time with Mamma and Aunty Rose and we hav got a luvly Baby. Its lots fater than the pal lady's Baby I tole you about. And it truly blongs to my Uncel Joe and Mis Mandy. But its just as good as mine whil I stay hear they sed so.