She sails day after to-morrow.

So you will have all ready for me, if you please." Never before had the announcement of my husband that he had to go away on business given me pleasure.

The moment he said that he would be absent, the remedy for my difficulty suggested itself.
The very day Mr.Smith sailed in the steamer for Charleston, I sent for an upholsterer, and after explaining to him the defect connected with my sofa, directed him to have the seating all removed, and then replaced by new materials, taking particular care to thoroughly cleanse the inside of the wood work, lest the vestige of a moth should be left remaining.
All this was done, at a cost of twenty dollars.

When Mr.Smith returned, the sofa was back in its place; and he was none the wiser for the change, until some months afterwards, when, unable to keep the secret any longer, I told him the whole story.
I am pretty well cured, I think now, of bargain-buying..