Once more he felt in the wrong, when he knew that, somehow, he was in the right.
But Adelaide was laughing and going forward gracefully with her duties as waitress.

"It's nothing," she said; "the stain will come out; and, if it doesn't, there's no harm done.

The dress is an old thing.

I've worn it until everybody's sick of the sight of it." Mrs.Ranger now took her turn at looking disapproval.

She exclaimed: "Why, the dress is as good as new; much too good to travel in.