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"It's too bad, now, to take you from your letter," said Miss Clippins, with a sly nod. "I'm sure you take it philosophically," said Miss Nippins, with a giggle. "Why shouldn't I?" said the divine Lillie. "I get one every day; and it's all the old story. I've heard it ever since I was born." "Well, now, to be sure you have.
Her labors wore upon her; and it was smilingly observed by Miss Clippins across to Miss Nippins, that Miss Lillie was beginning to show her "engagement bones." In the midst of these preoccupations, a letter was handed to her by the giggling chambermaid. It was a thick letter, directed in a bold honest hand.
Therefore it was that the virgin bower of Lillie was knee-deep in a tangled mass of stuffs of various hues and description; that the sharp sound of tearing off breadths resounded there; that Miss Clippins and Miss Snippings and Miss Nippins were sewing there day and night; that a sewing-machine was busily rattling in mamma's room; and that there were all sorts of pinking and quilling, and braiding and hemming, and whipping and ruffling, and over-sewing and cat-stitching and hem-stitching, and other female mysteries, going on.
"But three rows laid on plain has such a lovely effect," said Miss Nippins. "Perhaps, then, she had better have three rows laid on plain," said mamma. "Or she might have one row ruffled on the edge, with three rows laid on plain, with a satin fold," said Miss Clippins. "That's the way I fixed Miss Elliott's." "That would be a nice way," said mamma. "Perhaps, Lillie, you'd better have it so."
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