Dora was delighted; she was fond of old-fashioned things, and here were clothes of various eras.

Some colonial, perhaps, and none that had been worn since these two girls had come into the world.

There was a calico dress with large pink figures in it which caught Dora's eye; she sprang to her feet, shook it out, and held it up before her.
"This will do," she said.

"The length is all right, and it does not matter about the rest of the fit." "Of course not," said Miriam; "and now let us go down.

We need not wait to put the rest of the things back." As Dora was about to go, her eyes fell on an old-fashioned pink sunbonnet.
"If you don't mind," she said, "I will take that, too.