She liked very deep black, and wished those who had lost relations to wear it for a long, long time.

The girls, therefore, were quite amazed when she suggested that they should all go to Mrs.Ellsworthy in white.

They began to consider her quite an altered Hannah; but Jasmine took her advice, and bought many yards of soft flowing muslin, which the old servant helped her dear young ladies to make up.
At last the day and hour arrived when, as Primrose said sorrowfully, "Our fate is to be sealed and we are to bid 'Good-bye' to dear independence." The girls, looking as sweet as girls could look, arrived at Mrs.
Ellsworthy's at a fairly early hour in the afternoon.

The good little lady received them with marked tenderness, but said, in an almost confused manner, and by no means with her usual self-possession that a slight change had been found necessary in the afternoon's programme, and that the meeting of friends and acquaintances to hear their future plans was not to take place at her house after all.
"We are to go to another house not far from this," she said, "indeed, only a stone's throw away.

It is so close that we will walk it.