"'Just because you're you'!" laughed Sally, quoting a popular song. "But do you realize, Doris Craig, what a different girl I've become since I knew and cared for _you_?" She was indeed a different girl, as Doris had to admit. To begin with, she _looked_ different. The clothes she wore were neat, dainty and appropriate, indicating taste and care both in choosing and wearing them. Her parents were comparatively well-to-do people in the village and could afford to dress her well and give her all that was necessary, within reason. It had been mainly lack of proper care, and the absence of any incentive to seem her best, that was to blame for the original careless Sally. And not only her looks, but her manners and English were now as irreproachable as they had once been provincial and faulty. "Why, even my thoughts are different!" she suddenly exclaimed, following aloud the line of thought they had both been unconsciously pursuing. "You've given me more that's worth while to think about, Doris, in these three months, than I ever had before in all my life." "I'm sure it wasn't _I_ that did it," modestly disclaimed Doris, "but the books I happened to bring along and that you wanted to read. If you hadn't _wanted_ different things yourself, Sally, I don't believe you would have changed any, so the credit is all yours." "Do you remember the day you first quoted 'The Ancient Mariner' to me?" laughed Doris. "I was so astonished I nearly tumbled out of the boat. It was the lines, 'We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea,' wasn't it?" "Yes, they are my favorite lines in it," replied Sally. "And with all the poems I've read and learned since, I love that best, after all." "My favorite is that part, 'The moving moon went up the sky and nowhere did abide,'" said Doris, "and I guess I love the thing as much as you do." "And Miss Camilla," added Sally, "says her favorite in it is, "'The selfsame moment I could pray, And from my neck so free, The Albatross fell off and sank Like lead into the sea.' "She says that's just the way she felt when we girls made that discovery about her brother's letter. Her 'Albatross' had been the supposed weight of disgrace she had been carrying about all these fifty years." "Oh, Miss Camilla!" sighed Doris ecstatically. "What a darling she is! And what a wonderful, simply wonderful adventure we've had, Sally. Sometimes, when I think of it, it seems too incredible to believe. It's like something you'd read of in a book and say it was probably exaggerated. Did I tell you that my grandfather has decided to purchase her whole collection of porcelains, and the antique jewelry, too?"