"She is very clean, but then it's second to nothing to her," had said a sarcastic old lady, who had meant to imply that Miss Dorothy Grey was not constant at church.

But the sarcastic old lady had known nothing about it.

Dorothy Grey never stayed away from morning church unless her presence was desired by her father, and for once or twice that she might do so she would take her father with her three or four times,--against the grain with him, it must be acknowledged.
But the most singular attribute of the lady's appearance has still to be mentioned.

She always wore a slouch hat, which from motives of propriety she called her bonnet, which gave her a singular appearance, as though it had been put on to thatch her entirely from the weather.

It was made generally of black straw, and was round, equal at all points of the circle, and was fastened with broad brown ribbons.