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At that minute the noble black-taffeta deed felt foolish, but at the next minute I thanked my lucky stars for it. It is nice to watch for a person to catch sight of you if you feel sure how they are going to take it and somehow in this case I felt sure. I was not disappointed, for his smile broke his face up into a joy-laugh.
"What a slop you are!" remarked Henrietta, as her critical eye swept over the undeveloped little figure in the long, greasy black-taffeta coat, which, flapping open in front, disclosed the pasty surface of a drabbled blue skirt. "Why don't you never turn your skirt, Angela?" "Oh, what's the dif?" replied Angela. "There ain't no fellows going to look at me any more now."
"O God!" A malaprop of a tear, too heavy to wink in, came rolling suddenly down Hattie's cheek. "Morton let us live for God's sake! Please!" He regarded the clean descent of the tear down Hattie's color-fast cheek and its clear drop into the bosom of her black-taffeta housemaid's dress. "By Jove! The stuff is color-fast! You've a fortune in that cream if you handle it right, honey."
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