"What's a red-letter day, Nora?" asked Betty, coming into the kitchen where Nora was doing the Saturday baking.  
"It's a day when something 'specially nice happens," answered Nora. "Why?"
 
"Mamma just said it would be a red-letter day if she got all her mending done by night. I wish," added Betty wistfully, "that I could make it a red-letter day for her!"
 
"You can!" cried Nora. "I'll show you how to make a cake, and then she won't have to make it. She can have the time to mend."
 
"Goody, goody!" cried Betty, when her mamma said she might try.
 
"I didn't tell her about the red-letter part," she explained, as she and Nora measured and beat and stirred. "That will make it another kind of red-letter day—S for S'prise."
 
The cake came out of the oven light and flaky and beautiful.
 
 
"Wouldn't it ............