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Without giving himself time to think, Hugo went straight to Department 42, and direct to the artist in hats. She stood pale and deferential to receive him. The heat was worse than ever. 'Your name is Payne, I think? he began. 'Yes, sir. Other employés in the trying-on room looked furtively round. 'About half-past eleven an old gentleman, with white moustache, came into this room, Miss Payne.
The measuring was a most solemn and serious function, though it was nothing to the trying-on two days later, when my uncle stood by in an agony of apprehension as each garment was adjusted, he and Weston arguing over every seam and lapel and skirt until I was dizzy with turning round in front of them. Then, just as I had hoped that all was settled, in came young Mr.
"I cannot carp at you," wrote Jerome Otway in reply, "but tighten the purse-strings after this, and be not overmuch familiar with Alexander the Little or Daniel the Purblind. Their ways are not mine; let them not be yours!" He had to run up to town for the trying-on of his new garments, and this time the business gave him satisfaction.
He bought a plain blue serge suit, and begged leave to change in the "trying-on" room. Half an hour later he walked out again, with his own clothes done up in a bundle, feeling that his emancipation was now complete. The lights of Waterloo Bridge attracted him, and he turned down before them. From one of the parapets he had his first view of the Thames.
At the same time there came from a workshop across a little yard outside the window, a regular sound of hammering that kept a kind of tune: RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, RAT tat-tat, without any variation. 'Well, said my conductor to one of the three young women. 'How do you get on, Minnie? 'We shall be ready by the trying-on time, she replied gaily, without looking up.
It was only in the trying-on room that my suspicions were roused; and there it certainly did cross my mind that the attempt to discover me, which I defeated at All Saints' Terrace, was not given up yet, and that some of the shop-women had been tampered with, if not the mistress herself. "Can I give myself anything in the shape of a reason for this impression? Let me think a little.
When tea was over, Gervase went back to the Grange to sit with his uncle, while Nan adjourned upstairs to superintend that last trying-on of bridesmaids' dresses which the younger girls declared to be imperative. "My dear, you don't know what may be wrong! I slipped on my bodice last night, and it was two inches too tight.
"I certainly noticed two things which were out of the ordinary routine, under the circumstances. In the first place, there were twice as many women as were needed in the trying-on room. This looked suspicious; and yet I might have accounted for it in more ways than one.
It's not respectable the way they look at you and add you up and question you in those trying-on rooms, when they've got you." "Well, take Elise with you." "Me take Elise? I won't do it, not unless I could keep her mouth full of pins all the time. Whenever we're alone, and her mouth isn't full of pins, she always talks to me as if I was an actress. And I'm not."
It is true that the tailoring department flourished with orders, employing several tailors who crossed legs in their own homes, and that appointments were continually being made with customers for trying-on in that room. But these considerations did not affect Mrs. Baines's attitude of disapproval. "I'm just cutting out that suit for the minister," said Mr. Povey. The Reverend Mr.
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