Millicent held out her hand . `` We ought to know each other right away , '' she said frankly . `` My name is Millicent Moore , and yours is -- ? '' `` Worth Gordon , '' responded Worth , taking the proffered hand with dancing eyes . `` You actually frightened me when you came around that corner . For a moment I had an uncanny feeling that I was a disembodied spirit looking at my own outward shape . I know now what it feels like to have a twin . '' `` Is n't it odd that we should look so much alike ? '' said Millicent . `` Do you suppose we can be any relation ? I never heard of any relations named Gordon . '' Worth shook her head . `` I 'm quite sure we 're not , '' she said . `` I have n't any relatives except my father 's stepsister with whom I 've lived ever since the death of my parents when I was a baby . '' `` Well , you 'll really have to count me as a relative after this , '' laughed Millicent . `` I 'm sure a girl who looks as much like you as I do must be at least as much relation as a stepaunt . '' From that moment they were firm friends , and their friendship was still further cemented by the fact that Worth found it necessary to change her boarding-house and became Millicent 's roommate . Their odd likeness was the wonder of the school and occasioned no end of amusing mistakes , for all the students found it hard to distinguish between them . Seen apart it was impossible to tell which was which except by their clothes and style of hairdressing . Seen together there were , of course , many minor differences which served to distinguish them .
Both girls were slight , XXXXX dark-brown hair , blue eyes and fair complexions .
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