New Britain herald., 1927-12-27

cashed her fathers check first of all. 1 Then she started up Albermarle
 street towards the furniture store
 where she had always gone to buy
 prizes for bridge parties-Dutch sil-
 yer cigaret boxes or boudoir pillows
 or silk and lace.
 On the way she had 10 pass the
 little speciality shop where most of
 her wedding clothes had come from -Angouleme's.
 | Angouleme's was a French shop that specialized in those simple little hand-sewn dresses that cost a small
 fortune-in lingerie made of the fin
 ct silk and linen and embroidered 1 by French peasant women per | fumes and powders in boxes and l bottles almost as rare and expensive 1 as the things they contained. This morning there was a single dress in the little window. and Lily drew her breath in sharply as her
 eyes fell upon it.
 1 Tt was made for me- she said to i herself. the instant she saw it, and i she was right. It was queer shade Of gray that was almost grcen-the
 color of water with the dawn-light shining on 1.-the color of Lily's eyes.
 ! Beside it, in the velvet-lined win dow, stood q pair of watered silk slippers that had been dyed to match ' md rNDl If S,-.N nl-,, T,G to.. same mysterious clear color.
 AS Lily stood looking at it some one came lip and stood beside her.
 "Yes, that IS d very catsy little drcss"' said a gay voice, and there was Sun Cain. all in white and look ing as fresh as paint. She laughed at Lily's startled look. I'm sorry if I scared you. You going in herc?" She linked her arm in Lily's arm, and without intending to go, Lily found herself walking into the shop.
 It never had seemed quite so lux urious and restful place as it did today. with it's deep-piled carpet. its gilt-framed mirrors, and its little smoking stands drawn up beside brocaded arm chairs. They knew how to do things at Angouleme's,
 The clothes in the shop never had seemed to be so lovely before, eith- CT.
 Look ali this dress, Lizzie,' said Sue. Sometimes, when she wanted 10 be funny, she called Lily 'Lizzie.' She held up a lowered chiffon silk. Its called Day in June, she ran on. and I certainly think I'll
 get it for Ann Barpey's garden
 party" All the dresses in Angou- leme's had special names. Something like d sharp pain went to Lily's heart. Ann Barney | having garden party and not ask
 ing her. All the old crowd getting , together right along for their good , times, and leaving her out. People she had known since her private kindergarten days. People she had , danced with, gossiped with. gone around with all her life. . The cnly people she knew, really. "But even if they did start asking me places, I couldn't go.' she said 10 herself. T haven't anything really decent to wear-nothing bu: those few dresses of mine that have been washed and are all faded noW.'
 4 saleswoman came up to her as she sat, waiting for Sue to try on the Day in June" dress. Could I show you eomething?"' she asked in the yelvety voice that seems 10 be- long 10 all saleswomen in expensive shops the world over. "Yes--that dress in the window The gray-green one" Lily answered. "Id like to see if it fits me-" It did. And so did the little slip pers.
 Lily bought them and wore them home, and when she arrived there at five. after lunching with Sue, she had just l ] cents in her purse. Not only her fathers s2oo were gone, but sl0 that Pat had given her for household expenses were gone. too.
 Never mind, can open a charge account al the delicatesscn," Lily said 10 herself. "I ought to have one, anyway"
 She was used to charge accounts and she liked them. It was 50 simple 10 just say Charge it. please" and take whatever you wanted away with you:
 The little flat looked most unat- tractive when she opened the door. She had left the bed unmade, the dishes from her breakfast unwashed. the last nights supper dishes piled in the sink who're she had rinsed them the night before.
 She set to work to put things to rights, still wearing the new French
 dress. It never occurred to her to take it off. She had bought 1t so as to be beautiful in Pats eyes, and beautiful she was going 10 be.
 By the time he got home at half past six everything was in order or what Lily called order. The spreads were pulled ur 10 the top of the beds and the pillows laid upon them. The ash tray on the