I had
an idea, in mapping out this chapter, that I could make three or four
interesting pages--interesting to the girls, mind you--out of a
discussion of what they should wear at the Howlett dance. It was a
perfectly natural subject for discussion at the time and under the
circumstances. It would have been a good thing in the book, too, for
it might have conveyed a few wholesome hints in the line of good
taste in dress which would have made my story of some value. Women
are always writing to the papers, asking, 'What shall I wear here?'
and 'What shall I wear there?' The ideas of two women like Mrs.
Willard and Marguerite Andrews would have been certain to be
interesting, elevating, and exceedingly useful to such people, but
the moment I attempted to involve them in that discussion Miss
Andrews declined utterly to speak, and I was cut out of some six or
seven hundred quite important words. I had supposed all women alike
in that matter, but I find I was mistaken; one, at least, won't
discuss clothes--but I don't wonder that Mrs.
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