Dad's income stopped with him, and household expenses went on, and war came, so there isn't enough money to dress two of us as most of the high school girls are dressed.
Eileen is so much older that it's her turn first, and I must say she is not at all backward about exercising her rights.

I think that will have to suffice for the question of dress but you may be sure that I am capable of wearing the loveliest dress imaginable, that would be for a school girl, if I had it to wear." "Ah, there's the little 'fly in your ointment'-- 'dress that would be suitable.' I bet in your heart you think the dresses that half the girls in high school are wearing are NOT SUITABLE!" "Commendable perspicacity, O learned senior," said Linda, "and amazingly true.

In the few short years I had with Daddy I acquired a fixed idea as to what kind of dress is suitable and sufficiently durable to wear while walking my daily two miles.

I can't seem to become reconciled to the custom of dressing the same for school as for a party.

You get my idea ?" "I get it all right enough," said Donald, "but I must think awhile before I decide whether I agree with you.