For more than a year she had worn her hair in a braid doubled upon itself and tied with a bow at the back of her neck.
She decided that if she would part it, plait it in two braids and bring them round her head, she would look older.

She tried this and was much pleased with the result.

She thought the new style not only more grown-up, but also more becoming.

The pink slip, too, seemed to her a success.

It came almost to her ankles and its strings enabled her to make it look something like a dress.