orange-top-boots

Updated: July 13, 2026

She took all the dolls out of the baskets in which Ruth's careful hands had packed them the evening before, in the recognized manner in which dolls travel without detriment to their toilets, namely, head downward, with their orange-top-boots turned upward to the sky. In short, Molly busied herself in the usual ways in which an only child finds employment. It really was a glorious day.

Mary Cholmondeley - The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers