“I’ll help you,” said Miss Larkin. “I’ll have a dress made of orange-colored cheesecloth for Marjorie, and I’m sure Delight’s mother will let her have one, too.”
“Oh, do,” said Miss Merington. “I have a gown of orange chiffon and black velvet, so we will all be appropriately dressed.”
“And we’ll wear green,” went on Miss Larkin. “I’ll have green clothes made for King and Kitty, and I have a green silk already, myself.”
“Ho!” laughed King, “I’d look fine in a green rig, wouldn’t I!”
“Yes, you would,” declared Kitty. “You’d look like a hunter or Robin Hood or somebody like that. It would be lovely.”
“So it would,” said Miss Merington. “You are very kind, Miss Larkin, to go to so much trouble.”
“Oh, I like it. I’ll get in a dressmaker for a few days, and she’ll soon fix up the children’s costumes. Cheesecloth for the girls, and paper muslin for King. They’ll look fine, and not cost much, either.”
“I do think, Larky,” said Midge, after Miss Merington had gone, “that our trees will be the prettiest in the room.”
“I don’t know, child. She didn’t tell us about all of them. But we’ll fix ours up as well as we can. Delight, ask your mother to let you have your orange frock made over here, with Marjorie’s. It would be easier all round.”
“Oh, she will, Miss Larky. She’ll be glad to do it. She just hates to have a dressmaker in the house. And Miss Hart will help me make the oranges, I know.”