From this she began to think of Dora Bannister.

Dora was a nice girl, but Miriam could not think of her as one to whom she could show or tell very much; Dora liked to do the showing and telling herself.
"I truly believe," said Miriam to herself, and a slight flush came on her face, "that if she could have done it, she would have liked to stay here a week, and wear the teaberry gown all the time and direct everything,--although, of course, I would never have allowed that." With a little contraction of the brows, she went into the hall, where she heard her brother's step..