Monday noon
So they talked over all the nice things a person _ might _ do for a birthday , but long before they could decide which was the very nicest of all the plans , bedtime came . Then the next morning there were interesting things to do , and nobody thought about plans for a day that was two weeks away . That is , nobody but Mary Jane thought about it , and , if the truth must be told , she thought more about the doll cart she had wished for than she did about what she might do to celebrate . Monday noon , when Alice came home for her luncheon , she was much excited . `` Who do you s ` pose I saw at recess this morning ? '' she demanded . `` Guess ! ''