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Over the entrances to the shops the proprietors were dropping the white and brown awnings for the day. Very few people shopped after luncheon. There were pleasanter pastimes, even for the women, contradictory as this may seem. By eleven o'clock Courtlandt had finished the reading of his mail, and was now ready to hunt for the little lady of the Taverne Royale. It was necessary to find her.
She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in 'having a good time'. They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.
Dinah would have lingered to tell him of the night's happening, but Sir Eustace called her and with a smile of farewell she hastened away. She enjoyed that day with a zest that banished all misgivings. Sir Eustace insisted upon the purchase of the ring at the outset, and then she and Isabel went their way alone, and shopped in a fashion that raised Dinah's spirits to giddy heights.
He stood on the platform awaiting her, distinct from all the rest to her eager gaze a man of medium height, broader than she remembered, with a keen, bronzed face and eagle eyes that caught and held her own. She sprang form the train almost before it shopped. She held out both her hands to him. "Guy! Guy!" Her voice came sobbingly. He gripped the hands hard and close.
"Did yuh, Edwin?" "All the other fellows only got seventy and eighty." "Mamma's boy leads 'em." He entered at that, submitting to a kiss upon an averted cheek. "See what mother's fixed for you!" "M-m-m-m! fritters!" "Don't touch!" "M-m-m-m lamb stew!" "I shopped all morning to get okra to go in it for your father." "M-m-m-m-m!"
The new order of things has led to a new and, in some cases, better class of shops being established, and these attract a better class of customers. At one time residents in the adjoining counties looked down upon Birmingham shopkeepers, and would say rather contemptuously that they never "shopped" in this city, but went to Leamington, Cheltenham, or London to make their purchases.
She saw nothing but Bursley, and in Bursley nothing but the Square. She knew nothing except that the people of Bursley, who once shopped in Bursley, now shopped in Hanbridge, and that the Square was a desert infested by cheap-jacks.
Patsy and Elizabeth shopped for the next few days most strenuously and delightfully. Sometimes their dainty cousin Louise joined them, and the three girls canvassed gravely their requirements for a trip that was as new to them as a flight to the moon. Naturally, they bought much that was unnecessary and forgot many things that would have been useful.
"I'll guarantee that it's the best to be gotten in Clintonia, anyway. I've shopped around this town looking for your brand of chocolate until I'm an expert in that line." The chocolate disappeared as if by magic, and Frank Brandon rose once more to go. "I'm really going this time," he laughed. "It won't make any difference if you bring out a dozen packages, Jimmy."
When Hephzy begins chanting my praises I find it easier to surrender and change the subject. In Boston we shopped. It seems to me that we did nothing else. I bought what I needed the very first day, clothes, hat, steamer coat and traveling cap included. It did not take me long; fortunately I am of the average height and shape and the salesmen found me easy to please.
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