“You’re looking at numbers instead of dresses,” Darla said, snapping the tag off a third gown.

“You can’t wear a price tag into a high school gym.”

“They need those tags to ring it up,” Sadie said.

“They’ve got the stock codes in the computer,” Darla said.

She snapped off a fourth tag and closed her handbag with a metal pop.

“Now take those three dresses and go into the dressing room.”

Sadie stood staring at her grandmother’s handbag for three seconds.

She took down a pale sage tulle gown, a dark forest green satin dress and a deep emerald green gown with a fitted waist.