"If you're going to start out in life, calmly ignoring the advice of those who love you, and the dictates of common sense, the result will be that soon the wheels of life will be grinding you, instead of a train making bag-rags of your hat." "Hummm!" said Kate.

"There IS food for reflection there.

But wasn't it plain logic, that if the hat was to bring the man, it should be worn where at any minute he might see it ?" "But my dear, my dear! If such a man as a woman like you should have, had seen you wearing that hat in the morning, on a railway train, he would merely have thought you prideful and extravagant.

You would have been far more attractive to any man I know in your blue sunbonnet." "I surely have learned that lesson," said Kate.

"Hereafter, sailors or sunbonnets for me in the morning.