I cannot help it.

The tricks are so easy.

A young girl wearing a black frock which does not rustle--it is always a black frock, is it not, because a black frock cannot be seen in the dark ?--carrying a scarf or veil, with which she can make any sort of headdress if only she is a little clever, and shod in a pair of felt-soled slippers, is shut up in a cabinet or placed behind a screen, and the lights are turned down or out--" Adele broke off with a comic shrug of the shoulders.

"Bah! It ought not to deceive a child." Celia sat with a face which WOULD grow red.

She did not look, but none the less she was aware that Mme.