The teacher seemed to her too old to wear pink.

She thought she ought wear black like her mother.

Miss Slome's pink dress had knots of black velvet about it which accentuated it, even as Miss Slome's face was accentuated by the clear darkness of her eyes and the black puff of her hair above her finely arched brows.

Her cheeks were of the sweetest red--not pink but red--which seemed a further tone of the pink of her attire, and she wore a hat encircled with a wreath of red roses.

Maria thought that she should have worn a bonnet.