She was so out of sorts about her failure to secure Lydia Greenway that she felt a great relief in attacking little Annie Eustace.
"Becoming," said she.

"It actually makes you hideous.

That shade is impossible for you and why,--I trust you will not be offended, you know it is for your own good, dear,--why do you wear your hair in that fashion ?" "I am afraid it is not very becoming," said Annie with the meekness of those who inherit the earth.

She did not state that her aunt Harriet had insisted that she dress her hair in that fashion.

Annie was intensely loyal.
"Nobody," said Margaret, "unless she were as beautiful as Helen of Troy, should wear her hair that way, and not look a fright." Annie Eustace blushed, but it was not a distressed blush.