Still, as you had more faith in man (or woman), I would have risked even displeasing you, only Robert would not let me.

He said it was absurd--I 'did not know your size;' I 'could not know your taste;' in fact, he would not let me.

Perhaps after all it is better.
You shall see mine, which is the last novelty, and I will tell you the results of having investigated the bonnet question generally.

I was told at a fashionable shop that hats might be worn out of one's teens; but in Paris, let me hasten to add, you don't see hats walking about except on the heads of small girls.

In Rome it may be otherwise, as at the seaside it was.