Where I am going this evening, nobody is to be herself except me.

I am not to be Mrs.Redmain, though, but Hesper.

You know what Hesper means ?" Mary said she knew, and waited--a little anxious; for sideways in her eyes glowed the pink of the chosen Hesperian clouds, and, if she should not like it, what could be done at that late hour.
"There is my dress," continued the Evening Star, with a glance of her eyes, for Folter was busied with her hair; "I want to know your opinion of it." Folter gave a toss of her head that seemed to say, "Have not _I_ spoken ?" but what it really did mean, how should other mortal know?
for the main obstructions to understanding are profundity and shallowness, and the latter is far the more perplexing of the two.
"I should like to see it on first," said Mary: she was in doubt whether the color--bright, to suggest the brightest of sunset-clouds--would suit Hesper's complexion.

Then, again, she had always associated the name _Hesper_ with a later, a solemnly lovely period of twilight, having little in common with the color so voluminous in the background.
Hesper had a good deal of appreciative faculty, and knew therefore when she liked and when she did not like a thing; but she had very little originative faculty--so little that, when anything was wrong, she could do next to nothing to set it right.

There was small originality in taking a suggestion for her part from her name, and less in the idea, following by concatenation, of adopting for her costume sunset colors upon a flimsy material, which might more than hint at clouds.