Arctura looked as pretty a little waiting-damsel as might be seen, in her brown, two-skirted, best delaine dress, and her white, ruffled, muslin bib-apron, her nicely arranged hair, braided up high around her head and frizzed a little, gently, at the front,since why shouldn't she, too, have a bit of the fashion?and tied round with a soft, simple white ribbon.

Every one was there when I got down in such gorgeous tea-gowns; I wore my white mousseline delaine frock.