Yisss, m'm." We got some more material, and finished the dresses triumphantly.

By the next summer we were skilful enough to use our taste with some freedom and good success.
I was then fifteen, and in long dresses.

I remember some most tasteful costumes which we produced; and as we contemplated them as they hung, flounced, furbelowed, and finished, upon pegs, Eleanor said: "I wonder where we shall display these this year ?" How little we knew! We had made the dresses alike, to the nicety of a bow, because we thought it ladylike that the costumes of sisters should be so.

How far we were from guessing that they would not be worn together after all!.