Alice, it's time for us to dress now.

We'll wear our muslins with the pink spots, and those sweet new pink sashes that we got in exchange for the old teapot from Mrs.Middlemass last week.

Come along, Alice.
We'll show ourselves to you when we are dressed, Matty." The girls skipped lightly away, and Matty fidgeted and tossed in her small hot bed.
The house was intensely quiet.

Mrs.Bell was away, having taken advantage of a proffered lift from a neighbor to drive into the country to purchase some plums.

Matty thought how intolerably dull her evening would be.