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At sight of it she turned deathly white and began to shake as she had shaken that day in the fitting-room. But this time she recovered quickly, almost before Miss Milligan had noticed it. "Thank you so much," she said. With the last effort of her self-control she forced herself to place the packet upon the dresser.

"Where's the private room to give 'em in?" piped out one of the parcel-girls with a wink at the other. "In here!" cried Becky, with a sudden inspiration, jumping up and running into a little fitting-room that had that morning been assigned to her to sweep and put in order after the lunch hour. "Good for you!" cried Lizzie, with one of her laughs, as she followed her teacher.

At the end of the first day's trial of the new Featherloom shirt she had telephoned the Featherloom factory and had asked for Emma McChesney. People who had known her by that name never seemed able to get the trick of calling her by any other. With every fitting-room in the Fyfe & Gordon establishment demanding her attention, Miss Nevins's conversation was necessarily brief.

We found, however, a sensible saleswoman to whom I explained that I wanted a grey travelling costume, and she and Suzee disappeared from me entirely, into the fitting-room. Left alone, I swung myself back on a chair and lapsed into thought. When Suzee at last came back an exclamation broke from me. She was spoilt.

The dressmaker came back with Maud's waist. She put it on, and Gay went for her belt. While Lloyd was still waiting for her waist, Maud sauntered out of the fitting-room, and asked permission to use the telephone. She was still using it when Gay joined them. "Wait a minute," Maud called to her invisible auditor, and, still holding the receiver, turned toward the girls.

She led them to a counter piled high with boxes, and they made a hasty selection. Some alteration was needed in the collar of the one Lloyd chose, and in the sleeves of Maud's. While they waited in the fitting-room, turning over some back numbers of fashion-plates and magazines, Gay amused herself by wandering around the millinery department, trying on hats.

The idea of taking you off into that fitting-room, so't the rest of us wouldn't profit by her showing you, and then her talking about private lessons!" "Oh, that was only her fun." "Fun! and when one of the girls said, 'And private lessons must be paid for, mustn't they, Becky? and she answered, 'Yes, every time, do you think that was only fun?" "Yes; and if it wasn't, I don't care.

And that big floor-walker there gets a commission from the newspapers every time he tells them " She gave a squawk for all the world like a dried-up little hen scuttling out of a yellow dog's way, and we took the elevator to the second floor. The minute I closed the door of the little fitting-room she held out the lace to me. "I have changed my mind," she said, "and shall give you the lace back.

Madame Seelye did design it Isobel standing patiently before the long mirror in the fashionable modiste's fitting-room while Madame, herself, on her knees, pinned and unpinned and pinned again soft folds of pink satin which made Isobel's face, above it, reflect the color of a rose. "You'd think the whole world revolved 'round your old play," exclaimed Graham, not ill-humoredly.

This prophecy was received in silence, but without much sign of disagreement; and when the fitting-room door finally opened, it was funny to watch the looks of astonishment that were bestowed upon the pretty little basket of green and white paper that Lizzie held swung upon her finger. "Well, I never! She did know how, didn't she?" exclaimed one of the party. "Of course she did," answered Lizzie.