"I think you can trust me to know a FEW things, Alice," she said.

"I'm a little older than you, you know." "That's a good girl!" Alice jumped up, laughing.

"Don't forget it's the same as a promise, and do just cheer him up a little.

I'll say good-bye to him before I go out." "Where are you going ?" "Oh, I've got lots to do.

I thought I'd run out to Mildred's to see what she's going to wear to-night, and then I want to go down and buy a yard of chiffon and some narrow ribbon to make new bows for my slippers--you'll have to give me some money----" "If he'll give it to me!" her mother lamented, as they went toward the front stairs together; but an hour later she came into Alice's room with a bill in her hand.
"He has some money in his bureau drawer," she said.