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Updated: June 22, 2025
Not that she had been shabby when he had wished to marry her at noon: no self-respecting woman is ever shabby; not that her present costume had any of the elements of overdress; far from it. Being a woman, she had her thrill of triumph at his exclamation. Diana had no need, perhaps, of a French dressmaker, but it is an open question whether she would have scorned them.
"How delightfully cold you are! And what rosy cheeks! Do you know that we have a little dinner party?" "Mr. Mostyn?" "Yes, and your grandmother, and perhaps Dr. Fisher the Doctor is not certain." "And I see that you are already dressed. How handsome you look! That black lace dress, with the dull gold ornaments, is all right." "I felt as if jewels would be overdress for a family dinner."
"Oh, yes," I responded. "But it was a long fringe of gilt beads that really formed an overdress to the tulle skirt. Stay, I've a piece of it," and I took out my pocketbook. "See, here it is. I found it caught in those gilded leaves at the lower corner of the mirror frame that long dressing-mirror."
A laundress was boiling clothing over a fire near by; Ailsa slipped off her gingham overdress, unbound the white turban, and tossed them on the grass near the fire. Then, rolling back her sleeves, she plunged her arms into a basin of hot water in which a little powdered camphor was floating.
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