Here a band of willing workers sat and stitched and chattered and laughed and ate chocolates, while pretty garments grew rapidly under their fingers.

The dresses were only made of cheap materials, and were hastily put together, but they had a very good effect, for the colors were gay, and the style, with its panniers and lace frills was charming.
The girls would hardly have managed the cutting out quite unaided, had not Miss Lever offered her assistance.

"Dollikins" had large experience in the preparation of school theatricals, and possessed many invaluable paper patterns, so she was given a royal welcome, and installed at the table with the biggest and sharpest pair of scissors at her disposal.
On the afternoon fixed for the entertainment quite a goodly audience assembled to watch and applaud.

Mothers were in the majority, with a fair number of aunts and elder sisters, and just a sprinkling of fathers.

Forms had been carried into the garden and arranged as an amateur theater, a flat piece of lawn with a background of bushes serving as stage.