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Balding's had never seemed so huge and so complicated, and when she at length made her way to the right department the suave assistant regretted that the trimming was sold out. It was Cecilia's face of blank dismay that made him suddenly remember that there was possibly an odd length somewhere, and a search revealed it, put away in a box of odds and ends.
Rainham came into the room without the formality of knocking a formality she had never observed where Cecilia was concerned. The afternoon post had just come, and she carried some letters in her hand. "Cecilia, I want you to put on your things and go to Balding's for me," she said, her voice more civil than it had been for a month.
She took the envelope and pattered swiftly downstairs. A very few moments saw Cecilia flying in her wake to Balding's first, as quickly as tube and motor-bus could combine to take her, since she dared not breathe freely until Mrs. Rainham's commission had been settled.
"My new evening dress isn't quite finished we ran short of trimming. I can't go out, because the Simons are coming in to afternoon tea; so you just hurry and go over to Balding's to match it. I got it there, and they had plenty. Here's a bit." She held out a fragment of gaudy sequin trimming.
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