eight
o'clock
The bodice was not outgrown , after all . It was covered with the tarleton , and had a fall of beautiful old lace around the shoulders , a pretty frill at the neck , and short sleeves . Joe bought her white gloves , and she had a blue sash . Miss Cynthia came in to dress her ; but the little girl had a quivering fear that something had happened to her maid , for it was full eight o'clock . She put her back hair in a French twist , much worn then , with two big rings right on the top of her head that looked like a crown . Her front hair she curled over an iron , and then combed it out ; and it was a mass of fluffy waves , gathered in bandeaux just above her ears . She had her mother 's beautiful pearl earrings , that had come from France with the old French grandmother , and a handsome mother-of-pearl-topped comb in her hair .