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They seemed alternately third-rate stenographers , and very haughty urbanites who knew all about `` fellows '' and `` shows '' and `` glad rags . '' Except for good-natured , square-rigged Miss Moynihan , and the oldish , anxious , industrious Miss Ingalls , who , like Una , came from a small town , and the adorably pretty little Miss Moore , whom you could n't help loving , Una saw the girls of the school only in a mass . It was Sam Weintraub , J. J. Todd , and Sanford Hunt whom Una watched and liked , and of whom she thought when the school authorities pompously invited them all to a dance early in November . § 3 The excitement , the giggles , the discussions of girdles and slippers and hair-waving and men , which filled the study-hall at noon and the coat-room at closing hour , was like midnight silence compared with the tumult in Una 's breast when she tried to make herself believe that either her blue satin evening dress or her white-and-pink frock of `` novelty crêpe '' was attractive enough for the occasion . The crêpe was the older , but she had worn the blue satin so much that now the crêpe suddenly seemed the newer , the less soiled . After discussions with her mother , which involved much holding up of the crêpe and the tracing of imaginary diagrams with a forefinger , she decided to put a new velvet girdle and new sleeve ruffles on the crêpe , and then she said , `` It will have to do . '' Very different is the dressing of the girl who is n't quite pretty , nor at all rich , from the luxurious joy which the beautiful woman takes in her new toilettes .