I could no more live up to Lady Jane Grey than I could fly! She's above me altogether!" Verity, who had borrowed a Dutch costume slightly too small for her, was trying to squeeze her proportions into the tight velvet bodice, and looked dubiously at the sabots.
"I'll never be able to dance in those!" she decided.

"I'll put them on to start with, and then kick them off and slip on my sandals instead.
They're the most extraordinary clumpy things in the world, I feel like a cat walking in walnut shells!" Ingred's toilet progressed very favorably till it came to the stage of coloring her face.

She was not quite sure as to the best means of obtaining a Red Indian complexion.

First she tried rubbing it with soil from the garden, but that was a painful process which almost scraped the skin from her cheeks.

So she washed her face and used cocoa.