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Of course Milly bought the hat in the end, it was such a "jewel" and became her as if "it were made for Madame Brag-donne," who, Jeanne averred, was really more than half French. Which perfectly contented the man-milliner. "We know you, Mrs. The negotiations over the hat, which had to be altered several times, gave Milly a chance to confide in her old friend Jeanne the New Idea.
The next morning she set forth to track the fugitive pastry-cook and wile him back to their service. She found him after a time at one of the new hotels, where he had already been engaged as pastry-cook. To Milly's plea that he return to his old allegiance, he orated dramatically upon Ernestine and la femme in general. "You, Madame Brag-donne, are du vrai monde," he testified tearfully.
An ideal man pastry-cook was finally engaged, one highly recommended by Madame Catteau as vrai Parisien, skilful in every sort of pastry, and also three young women were induced, for love of Madame Brag-donne, to try their fortune in the great city of Chicago.
He whispered still more confidentially, "She was too old!" After that how could Milly help "just trying it on"? The girl who brought the hat exclaimed with a charming smile and a decided French accent, "It cannot be but it is it is Madame Brag-donne!" "Jeanne Jeanine!" and they almost embraced, to the scandal of Bamberg.
There would be nothing like it in Chicago or anywhere else in the new world, where Madame Brag-donne would admit the eating was not all that it might be in quality. Oh, yes, it was a brilliant idea and Jean remembered a sister-in-law who would make a remarkable dame de comptoir. She was living in strict retirement at Grenoble, the fault of a wretched man she had been feeble enough to marry....
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