As to quantity, she bought enough to make a nightgown."
In going back to her own room, her nightgown must have brushed the wet paint on the door.
Amongst the beautiful stuff Saxon went over, she found a nightgown and a combination undersuit of her own manufacture.
She made ruffled chemises of sheer linen, with her own fine edgings and French embroidery on breast and shoulders; linen hand-made combination undersuits; and nightgowns, fairy and cobwebby, embroidered, trimmed with Irish lace.
The youngster was in his long white
nightgown, that kept tripping him up as Madame Ratignolle led him along by the hand.
Standing on the ledge he could see trees far away, which were doubtless the Kensington Gardens, and the moment he saw them he entirely forgot that he was now a little boy in a nightgown, and away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens.
He awoke long before morning, shivering, and saying to himself, "I never was out in such a cold night;" he had really been out in colder nights when he was a bird, but, of course, as everybody knows, what seems a warm night to a bird is a cold night to a boy in a nightgown. Peter also felt strangely uncomfortable, as if his head was stuffy, he heard loud noises that made him look round sharply, though they were really himself sneezing.
With a sob she hastily discarded her garments, put on the skimpy
nightgown and sprang into bed where she burrowed face downward into the pillow and pulled the clothes over her head.
The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel
nightgown. She pressed him closer to herself.
She stood there in so much of her candor and so little of her
nightgown, with her pink bare feet and the golden glow of her curls.
Cobb gave a cluck, slapped the reins, and the horses started sedately on their daily task--"all I want to say is that it is a journey when"--the stage was really under way now and Rebecca had to put her head out of the window over the door in order to finish her sentence--"it IS a journey when you carry a
nightgown!"
The lurid presentment so powerfully affected her imagination in the silence of the sleeping house that her
nightgown became damp with perspiration, and the bedstead shook with each throb of her heart.