People would think you had
come out of the country. No young ladies have their dresses
made without trimming this winter."
"Mrs. Sandford," said I, "I should like to know what the dress
would be without trimming."
"What would it be, Melinda?" The woman was only a forewoman of
her establishment.
"Oh, well, Mrs. Sandford, the naked dress I have no doubt
could be made for you for five dollars."
"You would not have it _so_, Daisy, my dear?" said Mrs.
Sandford.
But I said I would have it so. It cost me a little difficulty,
and a little shrinking, I remember, to choose this and to hold
to it in the face of the other two. It was the last battle of
that campaign. I had my way; but I wondered privately to
myself whether I was going to look very unlike the children of
other ladies in my mother's position; and whether such
severity over myself was really needed. I turned the question
over again in my own room, and tried to find out why it
troubled me. I could not quite tell. Yet I thought, as I was
doing what I knew to be duty, I had no right to feel this
trouble about it.
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