Explore "Elsie's "Palmistry Evening"" by Annie Fellows Johnston on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
As Helen Jaynes stood before the mirror in her room, putting the last touches to her toilet, there was a rap at the door.
"I'm ready, Jane," she called, thinking it was the maid who had come to tell her the carriage was ready. But instead, her fifteen-year-old sister Sara peeped into the room. "Oh, sister Helen!" she exclaimed, in a disappointed tone. "Are you going out? Olive and I wanted to ask you something very particularly."