My new evening-dress isn't home from Charlottetown yet, and I simply cannot wear my old one at such a big affair.

It is too shabby and old-fashioned." "Our concert," said Rilla slowly, "is in aid of Belgian children who are starving to death.

Don't you think you could wear a shabby dress once for their sake, Irene ?" "Oh, don't you think those accounts we get of the conditions of the Belgians are very much exaggerated ?" said Irene.

"I'm sure they can't be actually starving you know, in the twentieth century.

The newspapers always colour things so highly." Rilla concluded that she had humiliated herself enough.