"I say, you aren't going to do it often, are you ?" And Betty straightway explained with much vehemence and feeling the torment of mind and body to which they had been condemned.
"They look like Aunt Pike," said Dan.

"No one else could have unearthed such things.

There is one comfort--we shall always be able to see you coming when you have them on.

Now then, mount, or we shan't get outside seats." But when Kitty, more than ever conscious after Dan's comments, looked at the steps and the little crowd of people who would witness her ascent, and thought of her dreadful stockings, her heart failed her.
"I--I think I will go inside," she said hastily.
"So will I," said Betty, shamefaced too.
"Nonsense," cried Dan, guessing at once what was the matter.

"You two skip up first, and I'll follow close to hide your le--retreat, I mean.
I am not going to be done out of our drive home together.