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When the forest of flowers had been dispersed in the epergne, and in
various bowls and glasses, to ornament the drawing-room, the three
sisters began to collect the green leaves and pieces of stalks
remaining on the table, and as they bent down to sweep them off into
a basket, their heads chanced to be almost close together.
'Why, Lizzie,' said Lady Merton, 'where are your curls? Have you
made yourself look so very different from Kate, to prevent all future
mistakes between you? and, Helen, have you really become a Pasha of
two tails?'
'Is it not very silly of Helen to wear them, Aunt Anne?' said
Elizabeth.
'Indeed, dear Aunt Anne,' said Helen, 'my hair never will curl well,
and Mrs. Staunton always said it made me look like an old woman in
the way I wore it before, so what could I do but try it in the way in
which Fanny and Jane wore theirs?'
'Oh! we must all bow before Dykelands,' said Elizabeth.
'And I have been wondering what made you look so altered, Lizzie,'
said Lady Merton, 'and now I see it is your hair being straight. I
like your curls better.


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