Remember you are to wear them until the warm weather comes," and with that Aunt Pike walked away triumphant.
"Oh, how hideous they are!" groaned Kitty, as she looked disgustedly at her striped legs; "how perfectly hideous! I shall be ashamed to go out in them.

What will Dan say when he sees them ?" "It is worse for me," wailed Betty, "my dress is so short.

O Kitty, how can we ever walk in these dreadful things ?" "I don't know," said Kitty bitterly, "but we've _got_ to.

It is a good thing we have something nice to do to-day, for it may help us to forget." But nothing made them do that; the discomfort went with them everywhere, and destroyed their pleasure in everything.
Earlier in the day Dr.Trenire had said that they might all go to the station to meet Dan; and they went on top of the 'bus, and alone too, for Anna did not break up until the next day, and the weather was lovely, and everything might have been perfect, if only they could have forgotten their tortured legs.

But to do that was more than they were capable of, for, in addition to the torture of them, there was the consciousness of their extraordinary ugliness, an ugliness which caught every eye.
"What on earth have you all got yourselves up in ?" was almost Dan's first greeting.