She put on the motor bonnet again, and then she went over to where a
black garden hat, with just one rose on the brim, and with long blue
velvet strings, was lying on a table.
"I think Timmy's mother would look very nice in this," she said smiling.
The black hat was slipped into a big paper-bag, and handed to Timmy. Then
Radmore exclaimed: "Now then, we've no time to lose! Help your sister
into the car, Timmy, while I stop behind and pay the bill."
The bill did not take a minute to make out, and Radmore was rather
surprised to find that the three hats--for he bought three--cost him not
far short of fifteen pounds between them, though the lady observed
pleasantly, "Of course I can afford to sell my hats at a _much_ less
price than London people charge."
To Betty's eyes, Godfrey looked rather funny when he came out of the gay
little painted door with a flower-covered bandbox slung over his right
arm.
She had thought it just a little mean that the shop-woman should give
Timmy Janet's hat in a paper-bag. Though Betty would have been horrified
indeed at the prices paid by Radmore, she yet suspected that "The
Bandbox" lady asked quite enough for her pretty wares to be able to throw
in a cardboard box, so "Is that for Janet's hat?" she called out.
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