We have an American tea every Wednesday.

Gus receives with me.'" "Poor princesses!" said Lucy.
Miss Vance folded the letter with a complacent nod.

"I am glad that Jean is settled so satisfactorily," she said.

"As for Lucy----" No one answered.

Lucy threaded her needle.
"I start next week to Chicago, did you know, Frances?
The Bixbys--two orphan heiresses--wish me to take them to Australia, coming back by India.