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Hilda is an heiress playing shop girl. Her clothing choices are simple but quite fine. She does not make her own dresses as most of the good women of Little Hope do. Once a year she travels to Calvary where a seamstress outfits her in the latest fashion plates of Paris.
She returns to Little Hope with parcels of fine linen, cotton, and even a bit of silk. There are whispers, as there always are, regarding her prim and flouncy frocks. But a lady dressed in what amounts to finery in that dusty little down is hardly the strangest bit of gossip. In her attempt to imitate the prairie skirts and shirt sleeves of women below her class she only highlights her own disjointed sense of style and position. -
