After all, it is a very simple plan, and the best thing about it is that it will keep us together." When Primrose began to talk Mrs.Ellsworthy threw down her hands in her lap with a gesture of great impatience.

Now she asked in a short dry voice, "May I ask what money you have in the bank ?" "Yes, certainly--we have two hundred pounds--a little of that must be spent in paying one or two small accounts, but then we shall have the money as well from the sale of our furniture.

Yes, I think we shall have quite two hundred pounds to take to London." "And we are going to be very economical," interposed Jasmine.

"We are going at first for a couple of nights to a boarding-house for ladies only.

It is called Penelope Mansion, and is in a street off the Edgware Road--we have a friend, she is only a village girl, but we call her our friend--her name is Poppy Jenkins, who has just gone to Penelope Mansion to help her aunt, who is the owner of the boarding-house.