to-be-hemstitched

Updated: July 27, 2025

She was smiling as happily as a child over being allowed to go, and he smiled down at her, pleased, too. "Not unless it's too big," he told her with an attempt at firmness which failed utterly. She went off, singing under her breath, as usual, to get a very small sewing-bag, with a little piece of to-be-hemstitched pink silk in it, and John looked over at his mother.

Margaret Widdemer - The Wishing-Ring Man