"I look the best in that hat, with the black velvet and the plume, I ever did, but there's no use to look twice, I can't afford it." "Oh, but it is very reasonable! We haven't a finer hat in the store, nor a better plume," said the milliner.
She slowly waved it in all its glory before Kate's beauty-hungry eyes.
Kate turned so she could not see it.
"Please excuse one question.

Are you teaching in Walden this winter ?" asked the milliner.
"Yes," said Kate.

"I have signed the contract for that school." "Then charge the hat and pay for it in September.

I'd rather wait for my money than see you fail to spend the summer under that plume.

It really is lovely against your gold hair." "'Get thee behind me, Satan,'" quoted Kate.