I did, and he brought me back one hundred dollars.
"Of course, I was delighted.

Then mother sent me fifty dollars for Christmas, and I bought all those presents.

It took every cent I had, and I was awfully silly, for no one cared as much for them as if they'd been pretty little gifts that I made myself.

That was my first folly.
"The next was those three gowns.

They haven't been paid for yet.