In and out through the coils she wound a string of my grandmother's pearls.

Then she went away, and Nora took her place and helped to dress me.
The white silk had lain by for many a year and was somewhat yellowed, but the richer for that.

Louise in adapting it had altered its character but little.

It was short in the waist and somewhat narrowly cut, straight and demure all round till it ended in a little train at the back.

It was almost swathed in the most beautiful old Limerick lace, through which the rich ivory tints of the silk showed.