"And they last such a short time.

Mamma said it really seemed almost criminal to buy it." "How delightful it will be," remarked cheering Emily, "when--when you need not think of things like that!" "Oh!"-- with another sigh, this time a catch of the breath,--"it would be like Heaven! People don't know; they think girls are frivolous when they care, and that it isn't serious.

But when one knows one _must_ have things,--that they are like bread,--it is awful!" "The things you wear really matter." Emily was bringing all her powers to bear upon the subject, and with an anxious kindness which was quite angelic.

"Each dress makes you look like another sort of picture.

Have you,"-- contemplatively--"anything _quite_ different to wear to-night and to-morrow ?" "I have two evening dresses I have not worn here yet"-- a little hesitatingly.