Adelaide Maud laughed outright, and took her briskly by the arm.
"I didn't mean that. I believe you will marry a duke. But you see--you think me so extravagant, and I might have to be poor."
"That dead seagull going cost you a guinea alone," said Mabel accusingly.
"And they kept the seagull," said Adelaide Maud. "How wanton of me!"
"I've had a very nice hat for a guinea," said Mabel, with a smirk of suppressed laughter.
"And yet you won't marry a poor man," said Adelaide Maud. "How unjust the world is."
They parted in better form than they had done an hour earlier.
"Wasn't she queer," said Jean, "to go off like that?"
"Queerer that she came back," said Mabel. "Do you know what I think? I believe Adelaide Maud bought that hat simply--simply----"
"To kill time," said Jean.