Dimity

'Raffle books,' she announced.

'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.

The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.