"I shall arrive the day before the Scholarship examination," she wrote, "and, my dear girl, will bring with me a dress suitable for you to wear on the great day.  I have consulted my dressmaker, Madame le Rouge, and she suggests white bengaline, simply made and suitable to a young girl. Yours, my dear Florence, will be the simplest dress in the school, and yet far and away the most elegant, for what we have to aim at now is the extreme simplicity of graceful youth.  Nothing costs more than simplicity, my dear girl, as you will discover presently.  But more of that when we meet.  One last word, dear Florence; of course, you will not fail.  Were I to see you dishonored, I should never hold up my head again, and, as far as you are concerned, would wash my hands of you forever."