"You had enough?"
"O yes, ma'am; Norton helped."
"Well then you have a pocket book; that will serve to hold your future supplies. I shall give you the same as I give Norton, five dollars a month; that is fifteen dollars a quarter. Out of that you will provide yourself with boots and shoes and gloves; you may consult your own taste, only you must be always nice in those respects. Here is November's five dollars."
"Mamma, November is half out," said Norton.
"Matilda has everything to get; she has to begin without such a stock as you have on hand."
"Mamma, you will give her besides for her Christmas presents, won't you?"
"Certainly. As I do you."
"How much will you give her, mamma? For I foresee we shall have a great deal of work to attend to in New York stores before Christmas; and Matilda will naturally want to know how much she has to spend."
"She can think about it," said Mrs. Laval smiling. "You do not want your Christmas money yet."
"We shall get into great trouble," said Norton with a mock serious face. "I foresee I shall have so much advising to do—and to take—that it lies like a weight on me. I can't think how Pink will settle things in her mind. At present she is under the impression that she must not keep more than one pair of boots at a time."