Do hurry up about it, for I want to get the soot off my face, and the cinders out of my eyes." The question of roommates being thus settled, the girls trooped into the rooms assigned them and began to dress for dinner.

The matter of gowns had been discussed by the girls when the judge's invitation had first arrived.

As they were to remain for a week, they would need trunks, but for the first dinner, in case the trunks did not arrive on time, it had been agreed that they each carry one simple gown in their suit cases.
Grace and Anne had both chosen white, Jessica a dainty flowered organdie, and Nora a pale pink dimity.

Eva Allen also had selected white.

Marian Barber alone refused to give her friends any satisfaction as to what she intended to wear.