Whereas boots and shoes had been purchased from an establishment advertising simple Boots and Shoes, they were now sought by people of the right sort from this new shop which was labelled the Elite Bootery.
Winona had halted with assumed carelessness before its attractively dressed window displaying a colourful array of satin dancing slippers with high heels and bejewelled toes.

Winona's assumption of carelessness had been meant to deceive passers-by into believing that she looked upon these gauds with a censorious eye, and not as one meaning flagrantly to purchase of them.

Her actual dire intention was nothing to flaunt in the public gaze.

Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
Four times she had passed the door of the shop, waiting for a dull moment in its traffic.

Now but two women were left, and they seemed to be waiting only for change.