Harry looked at her admiringly.
"How stunning you do look in that velvet dress!" he said.
Ida laughed consciously.

"I rather like it myself," said she.

"It's a great deal handsomer than Mrs.George Henderson's, and I know she had hers made at a Fifth Avenue tailor's, and it must have cost twice as much." Ida had filled Harry with the utmost faith in her financial management.

While he was spending more than he had ever done, and working harder, he was innocently unconscious of it.

He felt a sense of gratitude and wonder that Ida was such a good manager and accomplished such great results with such a small expenditure.