Will any woman, who speaks the truth, hesitate to acknowledge that her first sensations of gratified vanity rank among the most exquisite and most enduring pleasures that she has ever felt?
Sydney locked her door, and exhibited herself to herself--in the front view, the side view, and the back view (over the shoulder) with eyes that sparkled and cheeks that glowed in a delicious confusion of pride and astonishment.

She practiced bowing to strangers in her new dress; she practiced shaking hands gracefully, with her bracelet well in view.

Suddenly she stood still before the glass and became serious and thoughtful.

Kind and dear Mr.Linley was in her mind now.

While she was asking herself anxiously what he would think of her, Kitty--arrayed in _her_ new finery, as vain and as happy as her governess--drummed with both fists outside the door, and announced at the top of her voice that it was time to go downstairs.