The Great Experience never touched them at all." There was a tap at the door.

Kate opened it and delivered to Mrs.
Jardine a box so big that it almost blocked the doorway.
Mrs.Jardine lifted from the box a big Leghorn hat of weave so white and fine it almost seemed like woven cloth instead of braid.

There was a bow in front, but the bow was nested in and tied through a web of flowered gold lace.

One velvet end was slightly long and concealed a wire which lifted one side of the brim a trifle, beneath which was fastened a smashing big, pale-pink velvet rose.

There was an ostrich plume even longer than the other, broader, blacker, as wonderful a feather as ever dropped from the plumage of a lordly bird.