"It is pearl gray," said Clarissa.
"I would have got blue, while I was about it," said Letitia; "there is nothing like blue; and it becomes you, Anne. You ought to have got blue. I would have had one dress that suited me, if I was you, if I never had another."
"This will suit me, I think," said Anne.
"Aren't you going to trim it with anything? Dresses are so much trimmed now-a-days; and this colour will not be anything unless you trim it."
Anne replied by producing the trimming. The exclamations of delight and approval lasted for several minutes.
"What are you going to get, Letitia?" Maria asked.
"I have not decided."
"I don't know, but I will have a watch," said Maria. "You can get a very good silver watch, a really good one, you know for twenty-five dollars."
"But a silver watch!" said Anne. "I would not wear anything but a gold watch."
"How am I going to get a gold watch, I should like to know?" said Maria. "I think it would be splendid."