"Her clothes are so plain," lamented Sadie. "You could hardly call 'em such a trussoo, could you? All she's got is just her travelling suit with two silk waists, two house dresses, one afternoon dress, and two evening dresses. And her underclothes ain't fancy like a bride's. When I asked her to show me her wedding underclothes, she said she didn't get any new, she hadn't needed any! To be sure, what she has got is awful fine linen and hand embroidered, but it ain't made a bit fancy and no coloured ribbons at. All plain white," said Sadie in a tone of keen disappointment.
"And her evening dresses," said Jennie; "she says the lace on 'em she 'inherited.' Putting old second-hand lace on your wedding outfit yet! I told her I'd anyhow think she'd buy new for her wedding outfit. And she said, 'But I couldn't afford to buy lace like this. My great-grandmother wore this lace on a ball gown.'"
"She ain't ashamed to say right out she can't afford this and that," said Sadie wonderingly.
"Well, to be sure, that's just to us, and we're her folks now. She'd know better than to say it outside."
"Well, I guess anyhow then!" Sadie fervently hoped.
"But it looks as if she didn't have much, don't it?"
"I'm afraid it does." Sadie shook her head.
"What I want to know is, did she or didn't she bring Danny anything?" Jennie worried.
"It's hard to say," sighed Sadie.
"I don't like to ask her right out, just yet anyhow. After a while I will mebby," said Jennie.