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`` She has gestures -- Mother showed her how , '' said Bobby , very proud of his pretty sister . `` I do n't like to wave my hands , but I like to watch other people do it . '' A few days before the all-important Wednesday Miss Florence telephoned -- she had a telephone in her house now that she could not go out -- and said that Meg 's dress was finished . When Bobby and Meg came home from school at noon for lunch , Mother Blossom told them to go around by Miss Florence 's house that afternoon and get the frock . `` Dear , dear , if I 'm not stupid , '' fussed Miss Florence , folding the crisp , dainty folds of the dress a few minutes after the children had rung her bell and announced they were to take the package . `` Here I 've gone and saved this nice box for it , and it has n't a lid . If I lay sheets of tissue paper over it and pin them carefully , do you think you can carry it ? ''