With less ornament it
would be ten guineas."
"Thank you: I must not be so extravagant at present. May I look at
something which will do for walking? You would not, I suppose, make a
walking-dress for Langborough exactly as you would have made it in
London?"
"If you mean for walking about the roads here, it would differ slightly
from one which would be suitable for London."
"Will you show me what you have usually made for town?"
"This is what is worn now."
Mrs. Bingham was baffled but not defeated. She gave an order for a
walking-dress, and hoped that Mrs. Fairfax might be more communicative.
"Have you any introductions here?"
"None whatever."
"It is rather a risk if you are unknown."
"Perhaps you have been exempt from risks: some people are obliged
constantly to encounter them."
"'Exempt,' 'encounter,"' thought Mrs. Bingham: "she must have been to a
good school."
"When will you be ready to try on?"
"On Friday," and Mrs. Fairfax opened the door.
As Mrs. Bingham went out she noticed a French book lying on a side
table.
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