The school-mistress arose, daintily flicking the crumbs from her white piqué skirt.

And now Teddy and EdyTeddy in a minute white piqué suit, and Edy in a tiny kimono, in which she looked as Japanese as everything which surrounded herdisappear from these pages for quite a long time.

A white piqué skirt and linen shirt-waist of immaculate and starched whiteness, an apron with regulation shoulder-straps, and a cap that betokened a graduate of St. Luke's Hospital, formed her surprising, but not at all unbecoming, outfit.