I thought of brown with a touch of blue and burnt-orange.

How would you like that ?" "I think that would be perfectly lovely," said Maria with enthusiasm.
She cast a grateful look at her step-mother, almost a look of affection.

She was always very grateful to Ida for her new clothes, and just now clothes had a more vital interest for her than ever.

She took another stitch in her collar, with Evelyn leaning against her and kicking out first one chubby leg, then the other, and she immediately erected new air-castles, in which she figured in her brown suit with the touches of burnt-orange and blue.
A week later, when she started on the train for Wardway in her new attire, she felt entirely satisfied with herself and life in general.
She was conscious of looking charming in her new suit of brown, with the touches of blue and burnt-orange, and her new hat, also brown with blue and burnt-orange glimpses in the trimmings.

Wollaston Lee got on the same car and sat behind her.