Now, my dear little girl, shall I take you upstairs that you may change your dress before tea ?" Lulu accepted the invitation with alacrity.

They found Violet beginning her toilet while her maid unpacked her trunk.
"Lulu, dear," she said, as the child came in, "you want to change your dress I suppose?
Have you the key of your trunk ?" "Yes, ma'am," taking it from her pocket.
"Agnes," said Vi, "leave mine for the present (you have taken out all I want for the evening) and unpack that other." The child drew near her young step-mother with a slightly embarrassed air.
"I--I don't know what to call you," she said in a half whisper.
Violet paused in what she was doing, and looking lovingly into the blushing face, said, "You may call me cousin or auntie, whichever you please, dear, till you can give me a little place in your heart; then, as I am not old enough to be your mother, you may call me Mamma Vi.

What is it you wish to say to me ?" "Mayn't I go into some other room to wash and dress ?" "Certainly, dear," Violet answered.

Turning inquiringly to her mother, "What room can she have, mamma ?" "There is a very pleasant little one across the hall," Elsie said.

"If Lulu would like to have it for her own, it might be as well to have her trunk sent in before unpacking." "Oh, I should like to have a room all to myself!" exclaimed Lulu.