Miss Ludington reflected a moment, and then exclaimed, delightedly:
"Yes, we will call each other sister, for our relation is certainly a
kind of sisterhood. We are, like sisters, not connected directly, but
indirectly, though our relation to our common individuality, as if we
were fruit borne by the same tree in different seasons. To be sure," she
added regarding her blooming companion with a smile of tender admiration,
"we can scarcely be said to look as much alike as sisters commonly do,
but that is because there is not often a difference of more than forty
years in the ages of sisters."
And so it was agreed that they should call each other sister.
Although it was but one day that these two had been known to each other,
yet so naturally had Ida seemed drawn towards Miss Ludington, and so
spontaneous had been the outflow of the latter's long-stored tenderness
toward the girl, that they were already like persons who have been bosom
friends and confidants for years.
In this wonderfully rapid growth of a close and tender intimacy, Miss
Ludington exultingly recognized the heart's testimony to the reality of
the mystic tie between them.
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