Violet had finished putting on her costume and took a look at herself in the mirror while she was waiting to see if William was happy with the makeup job she had done on him. When she caught a glimpse of the full effect of herself in the wild patchwork dress, striped stockings, big colored boots, with her hair frizzed out all over her head, she suddenly started to giggle. Startled, she put her hand over her mouth to muffle the sound--she didn't want to get in trouble for making noise in class. But she just couldn't get the picture of how she looked out of her head, and every time she thought of it, she couldn't stop laughing. She had never felt so out of control before--but it was also kind of fun, in a strange way.