“Let me help you instead,” said Mildred. “You see I have quite finished with Annis.”
“I don’t like to trouble you, Cousin Milly.”
“It will be no trouble, dear, but a pleasure. And I should like to make some small return to your good Mammy for the help she gives Annis with her dressing.”
So Elsie accepted with thanks, adding merrily, “Won’t Mammy be astonished! She thinks nobody can dress me but herself.”
While the dressing was going on Elsie told with glee what she had been doing in the study, and that she was to be taken to the bank there to present the check herself.
Annis was greatly interested. “I hope I can go along and see you do it,” she said. “But won’t you feel a little frightened?”
“Not with papa close beside me.”
“That makes all the difference in the world, doesn’t it, dear?” Mildred said, finishing her labors with a kiss upon the round, rosy cheek.
“Me too, Milly,” Annis said, holding up her face. “Now good-by, and take good care of my little nephew while I’m gone.”
“Yes. Run away now and don’t keep the gentlemen waiting. The carriage has just driven round to the side entrance.”