"It was the same thing, sister mine. It makes a big difference; doesn't
it?"

"Silly!"

Alice laughed.

"I wonder if we ought to take all these light waists?" she asked a little
later, holding up a beautiful flimsy one. "It's sure to be hot there, I
suppose."

"I imagine so. And yet there may be cool and damp evenings. I'd take
everything, if I were you."

"I was thinking of sending some of my things back to Mrs. Dalwood. She
promised to look after them, if I did."

"Oh, I'd take everything. Where did you get that?" Ruth asked curiously,
as she held up one of her sister's garments, ornamented with a peculiar
lace.

"At that little Spanish shop we pass every day. Oh, she has some of the
most gorgeous things there, and some of the most beautiful! I wish my
purse were as long as my desires. But I got this very reasonably."

"Are there any more like it?" asked Ruth, for she, too, liked pretty
things.

"There were only two, and I took one."