Just some kind
of a pretty cheap white dress for the sermon, and a white one a little
better than I had last summer, for Commencement and the ball. I can use
the white gloves and shoes I got myself for last year, and you can
get my dress made at the same place you did that one. They have my
measurements, and do perfect work. Don't get expensive things. It will
be warm so I can go bareheaded."
Then she started to school, but was so tired and discouraged she
scarcely could walk. Four years' plans going in one day! For she felt
that if she did not start to college that fall she never would. Instead
of feeling relieved at her mother's offer, she was almost too ill to go
on. For the thousandth time she groaned: "Oh, why didn't I keep account
of my money?"
After that the days passed so swiftly she scarcely had time to think,
but several trips her mother made to town, and the assurance that
everything was all right, satisfied Elnora. She worked very hard to pass
good final examinations and perfect herself for the play. For two days
she had remained in town with the Bird Woman in order to spend more time
practising and at her work.
Often Margaret had asked about her dresses for graduation, and Elnora
had replied that they were with a woman in the city who had made her a
white dress for last year's Commencement when she was a junior usher,
and they would be all right. So Margaret, Wesley, and Billy concerned
themselves over what they would give her for a present.
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