CHAPTER XXIV.
DOVE'S JOKE.
Primrose had always been considered a very good manager.

Her talents for contriving, for buying, and, in short, for making a shilling do the utmost that a shilling was capable of, had been observable from her earliest days.

In the last years of her mother's life Primrose had been entrusted with the family purse, and the shopkeepers at Rosebury had known better than not to offer this bright-looking young lady the best that they had at the lowest price.

Primrose, therefore, when she came to London, had felt pretty confident that the talents which she knew she possessed would stand her in good stead.

She still hoped to find the cheapest shops and to get the best for her money.