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She was philosophically prepared to pay it in her own coin, and be done with it, and then give herself to the enjoyment of the pleasures of her lot. Her first enjoyment was in her beautiful going-away dress grey cloth and chinchilla fur, with flushes of pink as delicate as the rose of her cheeks and in her knowledge of the effect she made in that dream of a costume.
Did you seriously suppose that I I was going through all the orange-blossom rigmarole, voice that breathed o'er Eden, fully choral, red carpet on the pavement, flowers, photographers, vicar, vestry, Daily Picture, reception, congratulations, rice, old shoes, going-away dress, 'Be kind to her, Ozzie. Not much! And I don't think. They say that girls love it and insist on it.
Eleanor, in her little white chamber on Thirtieth Street, was engaged in making a pink and green toothbrush case for a going-away gift for her Uncle Peter.
"It is perfectly amazing, the price they pay for such lies, that's what," she said, half-proudly, half-severely. All things considered, it was a relief when going-away time came. And it was very jolly to be back at Redmond, a wise, experienced Soph with hosts of friends to greet on the merry opening day.
But before we had come to more than platitudes, the eye doctor had repaired the type-writer, and called his wife to other duties. We had a going-away dinner at the Tiare hotel, Landers, Polonsky, McHenry, Hallman, Schlyter, the tailor, and Lieutenant L'Hermier des Plantes, a French army surgeon who was sailing on the Fetia Taiao to the Marquesas to be acting governor there.
Frivolity of Outward Show Dear old Aunt Jane was making a visit in the early spring at the home of her newly-married niece, and spring clothes was the all-absorbing topic of conversation in the family. "I feel sure this hat's not broad enough in the brim, Aunt Jane," said the worldly niece, who wanted to appear just as bewitching to her young husband as she did in her going-away costume.
Sometimes this going-away masher is a Washington newspaper correspondent, and sometimes he is a Van Something from New York, or a Chicago wheat-broker worthy fifty millions.
"What's that?" "You heard what I said. She's to be settled for dressed." "Good Lord, she isn't a chicken!" "Nobody said she was. It is fit and proper that her garments should be weighed with her. Hang it all, man, I'm marrying her clothes as well as anything else." "I will not agree to that. It's preposterous." "I don't mean her entire wardrobe. Just the going-away gown and hat.
Her "going-away dress" Marian persisted in calling it, just as if Patty were a bride; but as Marian burst into tears every time she mentioned Patty's going away, her words were so indistinct that it mattered little what terms she used.
The going-away gown was wrinkled, as though worn for a period of time by one suddenly and sorely stricken in the midst of health.
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