`` but I ca n't get my good clothes ; they 're in the spare room , and ma locked the door , for fear somebody would get at the fruit cake . I have n't a single thing to wear , except my school gingham . '' `` Well , that 's new and pretty , '' said the Story Girl . `` We 'll lend you some things . You can have my lace collar . That 'll make the gingham quite elegant . And Cecily will lend you her second best hat . '' `` But I 've no shoes or stockings . They 're locked up too . '' `` You can have a pair of mine , '' said Felicity , who probably thought that since Sara was certain to yield to temptation , she might as well be garbed decently for her transgression . Sara did yield . When the Story Girl 's voice entreated it was not easy to resist its temptation , even if you wanted to . That evening , when we started for the schoolhouse , Sara Ray was among us , decked out in borrowed plumes . `` Suppose she DOES catch the measles ? '' Felicity said aside . `` I do n't believe there 'll be anybody there from Markdale . The lecturer is going to Markdale next week . They 'll wait for that , '' said the Story Girl airily . It was a cool , dewy evening , and we walked down the long , red hill in the highest of spirits . Over a valley filled with beech and spruce was a sunset afterglow -- creamy yellow and a hue that was not so much red as the dream of red , with a young moon swung low in it .
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