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When the great day arrived, Cinderella was called upstairs to help the sisters dress. The ball did not begin until seven o’clock in the evening, but they began their preparations immediately after breakfast, and even rose at eight o’clock, which was a thing they had never done before in all their lives.

Cinderella found their room in the most hopeless confusion. There were hats and feathers on the bed, skirts and petticoats of different colours strewed all over