“There, do you like this veil? Don’t you think it suits my hair? Mr. Dow says my hair is a yellow peril. I don’t know what he means.
“You like my face better without my veil? Why, how pretty of you. Now, just for that I’ll let you select one.
“You’d select a bridal veil? Oh, fie, fie, Mr. Willing. You don’t really—Yes, I do want a veil. Please show me some of your other styles. And Mr. Willing, what do you think? At Gladys’s wedding next week, she is going to have—Certainly, my dear girl, I’m ready to look at your goods, but these are not the veils I want. Show me something newer, these are all—Why, Gladys said that Polly Peters said—do you remember Polly Peters? Well, you’d never know her now. Slim! She’s nothing but a spine—Yes, my girl, I’m looking at your veils, but I want the piece that lady has just picked up. Let’s wait till she lays it down.
“Now, Mr. Willing, you mustn’t get impatient. You men don’t realize what hard work shopping is, until now—Oh, my gracious! I have to be at our culture class by 4 o’clock. There’s a lecture on ‘Art Uplift in the Kitchen,’ and I know it will be fine.
“No, I don’t cook, but it’s such a satisfaction to know that one’s soup is made in a Greek-shaped jug, instead of a crude iron kettle—Oh, mercy, no! I wouldn’t wear a veil like that! Why, Mrs. Bailey had one like that once, and the very day I saw her wearing it I lost my amethyst hatpin. I’ve always considered a veil like that unlucky ever since.
“Well, I don’t seem to care for any of these veils, they’re not a bit distinctive. And a veil is such an important part of a costume—it dresses up the face so. These patterns are most uninteresting.
“Come on, Willing Willy, let’s go down to Storer’s and look at veils there—shall us?
“Why, you don’t seem to want to go a bit. Now, don’t go just to please me. I thought perhaps you were interested in—
“Oh, do you want to go? Do you know I believe you men just love to go shopping, and you only pretend you don’t.
“I am sorry, dear, that your veils don’t suit me, but, of course, I can’t buy what I don’t want just to help the store along; you couldn’t expect that, could you?