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The Butterfly
By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
"IT'S time for Vilola to come home I again, and B. F. Brown is havin' paintin' and paperin' done," said Mrs. Abner Wells to her sister. Her sister's name was Mrs. Francis Baker, and she had come over with her work and her baby to spend the afternoon.
"Well, I thought there was something goin' on there when I came past," responded Mrs. Baker. "I noticed that the front chamber windows were open, and I saw some old room-paper flyin' round the yard."
"The man just finished it,—went away since dinner."
"That front room is Vilola's, ain't it?"
"Yes, of course it is,—didn't you know it?"
"Why, when did he have that room papered before?"
"He had it papered only the last time she came," said Mrs. Wells, impressively.
"Why, that couldn't have been more'n a year ago."
"Of course it couldn't. Don't Vilola Brown always come once a year and spend six months with her father, and then go back to Jefferson and spend six months with her mother? Ain't she done that ever since her father and mother separated when she was a baby? I should think you might know that as well as I do, Elmira Baker."
"Oh, of course I do," said Mrs. Baker; "I was only talking at
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