Betty waited a minute. "Oh, Babbie, I hate to tell you, but I do want you to help. You know Rachel tried to pick out some of the girls to usher who hadn't had as many good times as the rest of us, like Helen and Lotta Gardner and that quiet Miss Ray who doesn't seem to have any friends. They all seemed so pleased, but to-day Lotta and Miss Ray came to her and said they'd decided they couldn't stay to commencement. Rachel felt around and found out that the trouble was they thought their dresses wouldn't do to usher in. They had heard that everything was going to be so very elegant this year. And just now, while I was down at Rachel's, Emily Davis came in and refused for the same reason. She didn't want to spoil the grand effect, she said, with a dowdy dress. We tried to make her think her dimity was all right, but we couldn't."