Explore "Old Comrades" by Agnes Giberne on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
LUNCH over, the two Dorotheas hastened away to dress. Dolly would not permit the loss of a moment. Expeditious as Dorothea always was, she found Dolly in the hall, ready dressed, charming in her dark furs and golden hair. Both pallor and limpness were gone, but Dorothea did not quite like the sharp contrasts of pink and white in the small face.
"Are you sure you ought to go to-day? " she asked in a low tone, when they were off, the two Colonels bringing up the rear, arm-in-arm.