He tried to enter into her perplexity. \"But don't Englishwomen dress just like everybody else in the evening?\"
\"Newland! How can you ask such funny questions? When they go to the theatre in old ball-dresses and bare heads.\"
\"Well, perhaps they wear new ball-dresses at home; but at any rate Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle won't. They'll wear caps like my mother's—and shawls; very soft shawls.\"
\"Yes; but how will the other women be dressed?\"
He tried to enter into her perplexity. \"But don't Englishwomen dress just like everybody else in the evening?\"
\"Newland! How can you ask such funny questions? When they go to the theatre in old ball-dresses and bare heads.\"
\"Well, perhaps they wear new ball-dresses at home; but at any rate Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle won't. They'll wear caps like my mother's—and shawls; very soft shawls.\"
\"Yes; but how will the other women be dressed?\"
