shouldn't Mother let her do that?"

"Well, it's not my idea of good housekeeping, that's all," Mrs. Otis
said staidly. "Managing is the most important part of housekeeping.
In giving such a girl financial responsibilities, you not only let
go of the control of your household, but you put temptation in her
way. No; let the girl try making some beds, and serving tea, now and
then; and do your own marketing and paying, Sally. It's the only
way."

"Justine tempted--why, she's not that sort of girl at all!"
Alexandra laughed gaily.

"Very well, my dear, perhaps she's not, and perhaps you young girls
know everything that is to be known about life," her aunt answered
witheringly. "But when grown business men were cheated as easily as
those men in the First National were," she finished impressively,
alluding to recent occurrences in River Falls, "it seems a little
astonishing to find a girl your age so sure of her own judgment,
that's all."

Sandy's answer, if indirect, was effective.

"How about some tea?" she asked. "Will you have some, either of you?
It only takes me a minute to get it."

"And I wish you could have seen Mattie's expression, Kane," Mrs.
Salisbury said to her husband when telling him of the conversation
that evening, "really, she glared! I suppose she really can't
understand how, with an expensive servant in the house--" Mrs.