They both stopped to stare for a moment before starting to giggle and I heard one say to the other, "I wonder if she is wearing black cotton bloomers.They both stopped to stare for a moment before starting to giggle and I heard one say to the other, "I wonder if she is wearing black cotton bloomers." Then they both howled with laughter. I started to faint, but mother caught me and I said, "Please Mother, I can't stand it. I'll do anything you ask, but please get me out of these clothes." "All right, dear. But lets finish our shopping and we'll go home and talk about it." I was trying to shrink into the ground before we got home. As we put our groceries away, I begged her not to make me go out dressed as I was again. "I think that can be arranged dear, if you promise to be a good girl and do as mother says. I know what is best for you and I expect to be obeyed. I waited for the ax to fall."Would you like to be dressed like those two pretty little girls we saw in the grocery store?" "But,.. why can't I ......" "Now, see Prunella, I'm trying to be nice. Do you want to go on wearing the clothes you have on?" I knew I couldn't win. "No mother." "Will you be the obedient daughter that I would like you to be?" Now I knew the plan. That's why she dressed me so terribly. She wanted an easy acceptance to be out of those awful clothes. "Yes Mother," "We'll go shopping tomorrow for your new clothes. And you won't be going by the name of Prunella. Your name will be Pamela, a name that I had picked out for you before you were born. |