When he returned, all I could say was: "It's Miss Betty's wedding to-morrow.

I suppose I've got a morning coat and a top hat." "You have a morning coat, sir," said Marigold.

"But your last silk hat you gave to Miss Althea, sir, to make a work-bag out of the outside." "So I did," said I.
It was an unpleasant reminiscence.

A hat is about as symbolical a garment as you may be pleased to imagine.

I wanted to wear at the live Betty's wedding the ceremonious thing which I had given, for purposes of vanity, to the dead Althea.