You will find it laid out upon the bed in your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should both be extremely obliged.' "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade of blue.

It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before.

It could not have been a better fit if I had been measured for it.

Both Mr.
and Mrs.Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence.

They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor.