"Great. Then we shan't have to touch them again until the time comes to tie them up in fancy paper to make them look Christmassy."
"Here's the dress Mrs. Lancaster couldn't decide whether to have made over with black silk or blue velvet."
"Mrs. Lancaster," murmured Ethel Brown, making out her card.
"That certainly can't go as it is," pronounced Della.
"There's material enough in it for two children's dresses," decided Margaret. "Mark it, 'Will make two dresses.'"
"Here's Maud Delano's jacket. She told Roger she'd send this over when she got her new one."
"It came this morning. It's all right except for tightening a button or two," and Ethel Brown inscribed, "Coat; tighten buttons" on the slip which Della tied on to one of the incompetent fasteners.
"Good for Mrs. Warburton!" cried Helen.
"What's she done?"
"Here's a great roll of pink flannelette—and blue, too—among her things. We can make dresses and wrappers and sacques and petticoats out of that."