"I didn't know women ever shopped like that," said Richard in her ear.
"Like what?"
"Why, bought the thing right off without asking to see everything in the store. That's what—I've been told they did."
"Not if they're wise—when they see a thing like that. There was only the one pattern. Why, another woman might have walked up and said right over my shoulder that she would take it."
"If she had I'd have seen that you got it," declared Richard.
He accompanied the party to the door when they went; he saw them to the sleigh and tucked them in.
"Bareheaded again," observed Uncle Rufus, regarding him with interest.
"Again?" queried Richard.
"All the young men we meet this morning insist on standing round outdoors with their hats off," explained the elder man. "It looks reckless to me."
"It would be more reckless not to, I imagine," returned Richard, laughing with Ruth and Roberta.