"He promised the other night."
"And Charles," added Clo, "do not forget that you must go with me to-morrow and be measured for a jacket."
"I am to wear one at last, then?"
"Yes, for now you are really growing too tall for frocks."
I was very glad; for I abjured those braided garments, compassing about my very heels with bondage, with utter satisfaction. Still, I was amused. "I suppose it is for this party I am going to," thought I.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The next day at class, Laura's place still being empty, I watched eagerly for Clara. The people were pouring in at the door, and I, knowing their faces, could not but feel how unlike she was to them all, when in the way she appeared, so bright in her dark dress, with her cloudless forehead and air of ecstatic innocence. She spoke to me to-day.
"How are you?"
"Quite well; and you, Miss Benette? But I want you to listen to me presently; seriously, I have something to say."