With much laughter and fun the selection continued until all the dresses had been taken. Burleigh Blood confided to Flossy, that, when his turn came, the only male costume remaining was that of little Tim Bawlin, and that he had taken it.
"What on earth will you do?" she asked.
"I must get up something, but I am sure I don't know what."
"I'd be glad to help you," she said. "If I can, that is."
"Of course you can," he replied. "I shall depend upon you."
As Patty left the hall, she was joined by the lawyer.
"I am going to see your grandmother," he said. "This famous pension business is about settled, and I wish to tell her."
"I am glad if it has at last come to something," she returned. "I doubted if it ever would."
"I want to ask a favor of you," he said as they gained the street.
"What is it?"