"You must allow some time for sight-seeing, my dear," said her husband. "It would be a great shame to carry Annis all the way out to Indiana again without having shown her the lions of Philadelphia."
"Oh, certainly she must see them," said Mildred. "You can show them to her while Aunt Wealthy and I are shopping."
"You intend, then, to shut me out of that business? How shall I know that you will not be ruining me?"
"My dear," said Mildred, laughing, "you forget how rich you have made me. I shall have no occasion to ruin anybody but myself."
"And as for me," remarked Miss Stanhope drily, "I have my own purse."
"And father has sent money to buy Ada's things, mother's, and Fan's, too," added Annis. "But, Milly, I must have some share in the shopping, too. I expect to enjoy that as much as the sight-seeing."
Mildred assured her she should have as much as she wanted, adding, "But there will be a good deal which will not be likely to interest you—napery and other housekeeping goods, for instance."
"Your share of those things will interest me, and must be paid for from my purse," put in the doctor.
"Quite a mistake," said Miss Stanhope; "those are the very things a bride or her parents are expected to supply."