"I see," said Skinner, making an effort to be calm. "Silk hosiery?"
"A dollar will cover socks and garters both."
"Garters?" Skinner snapped. "Garters are a luxury. Besides, I never had any success with garters. Safety pins for mine."
"My Dearie a safety-pin man—in a dress suit—not much!"
"Thank goodness, I don't have to have a high hat!"
"If there's anything that's really funny," Honey observed, "it's the combination of a fine dress suit and a cheap hat. Six dollars will cover that."
"That's a darned sight more than the hat'll cover if I don't stop spending money! But why a hat, anyway?" he continued; "you don't wear it in the house. That's the only time your dress suit shows. When you're out of doors you wear it under an overcoat." He paused abruptly. "An overcoat! Great Scott! Have I got to have a new overcoat?"
"You seem to think you have, and, honestly, I agree with you. It would never do, Dearie, to be fine at both ends and shabby in the middle."
Skinner grunted. "An overcoat will cost forty dollars! Do you hear?—forty dollars!"
"I did n't say anything about an overcoat, Dearie. It's your own suggestion."