"Do you think it will take?" asked Mrs. Ballman.
"I do."
"You have not the pattern?"
"Oh, yes. I received one a week ago."
"You did!"
"Yes. But some one must introduce it. As Mrs. Claudine is about doing this there is little doubt of its becoming the fashion, for the style is striking as well as tasteful."
Mrs. Ballman mused for some moments. There she drew the milliner aside, and said, in a low confidential tone.
"Do you think you could get up a bonnet a handsome as that, and in just as good taste?"
"I know I could. In my last received London and Paris fashions are several bonnets a handsome as the one that is about being adopted in New York, and here also without doubt."
"I am not so sure of its being adopted here," said the lady.