I'm glad I kept back this particular dress.

He's sure to like it, and it certainly is becoming to me--the best-fitting skirt I ever had--what good lines it has about the hips." She startled at a knock upon the door.

She rushed away from the mirror.

He had small physical vanity himself--she had never known any one with so little.

He had shown that he thought she had no vanity of that kind, either, and he would doubtless misunderstand her solicitude about her personal appearance.