“That’s a perfectly splendid idea,” approved Miss Graham. “I suppose along the lower part of the closet side of your room, you have small closets and cupboards for shoes and for blouses.”
“I have my blouse closet above my shoe closet,” returned Mrs. Smith.
“Did you notice the tall, thin closet for one-piece dresses?” asked Ethel Blue.
“I should think that would be splendid because it doesn’t jam up your evening dresses,” said Helen, who was beginning to think longingly of real, grown-up evening dresses.
“That’s the closet Ethel Blue always calls the ‘stepmother closet,’” laughed Ethel Brown.
“Why ‘stepmother closet’?” inquired Miss Graham quickly.
“Because it would pinch a stepmother so hard if she got into it,” said Ethel Blue.
Miss Graham looked puzzled and Dorothy explained.
“Ethel Blue hates stepmothers. She doesn’t know why, except that they are always horrid in fairy stories, but she thinks this long narrow closet would be just the place to put a horrid one into to punish her.”
“Stepmothers are often very nice,” said Mrs. Morton.