Oh yes. Everybody in Society bought them. Claude et Cie was quite the rage that Season. Nobody who was anybody went anywhere else.
MONTY
She must have made a great deal of money.
JANET
On the contrary. She made nothing at all and narrowly escaped bankruptcy.
MONTY
But I don’t understand. If her hats were so dear and everybody bought them?
JANET
Everybody bought them but nobody paid for them. In the highest social circles I believe people never do pay for anything—certainly not for their clothes. At least, nobody paid Miss Hicks, and at the end of six months she was owed £1,200 and hadn’t a penny to pay her rent.