"You haven't either of you a suitable dress for travelling in, especially in company with your father's rich wife.

I'll have to go right out now to the stores and buy material, get a dress-maker to come in to-morrow bright and early, and help her myself all I can.

There'll be no rest for me now till you're off." There was no rest for anybody else in the interim except Gracie.

As Ann remarked rather indignantly to Lulu, adding, "She's as cross as two sticks." "What makes her so cross ?" asked Lulu.

"I should think she'd be so glad she's going to be rid of me that she'd feel uncommonly good-natured." "Not she!" laughed Ann, "she counted on the money your father pays for years to come; but he's gone and got married and her cake is dough sure enough." "I'm glad he did," returned Lulu emphatically.