costume you wore that night, and let me see you in it?
It is not mere idle curiosity, my child, but something far, far above such idle folly." "Wait for me a minute, Aunt Janet," she said, as she rose up; "I shall not be long." Then she left the room.
In a very few minutes she was back.

Her appearance might have frightened some people, for she was clad only in a shroud.

Her feet were bare, and she walked across the room with the gait of an empress, and stood before me with her eyes modestly cast down.

But when presently she looked up and caught my eyes, a smile rippled over her face.

She threw herself once more before me on her knees, and embraced me as she said: "I was afraid I might frighten you, dear." I knew I could truthfully reassure her as to that, so I proceeded to do so: "Do not worry yourself, my dear.