Amy examined it critically.
"Now, you would have looked perfectly ghastly in this last night, when you were as pale and hollow-eyed as a sick nun; but to-night," and she raised her eyes to my face, "I believe you will do.

Don't you want the bodice cut lower ?" "No, thanks!" I said, smiling.

"I will leave that to the portly dowagers--they will expose neck enough for half-a-dozen other women." My friend laughed.
"Do as you like," she returned; "only I see your gown has short sleeves, and I thought you might like a square neck instead of that little simple Greek round.

But perhaps it's better as it is.

The stuff is lovely; where did you get it ?" "At one of the London emporiums of Eastern art," I answered.