department-stored

Updated: May 13, 2025

Later, when he had had his tenderloin and she had department-stored herself, a pint of grocer's burgundy had reduced him to tears. The day before it had seemed to her that the frock would do. But her judgment had been hurried. Shops, crowds, the vibrations of both, devitalised and confused her.

Edgar Saltus - The Paliser case