You know the really genteel by the way they say 'Good-bai.' The rest of us who pride ourselves on not being provincial say--you may have noticed--'Good-ba--a.'" Pamela laughed, and said she had noticed the superior accent of Priorsford.
"Jean and I were much interested in the difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow shops.

Not in the things they sell--the shops in both places are most excellent--but in the manner of selling.

The girls in the Edinburgh shops are nice and obliging--the war-time manner doesn't seem to have reached shop-assistants in Scotland, luckily--but quite Londonish with their manners and their 'Moddom.' In Glasgow, they give one such a feeling of personal interest.

You would really think it mattered to them what you chose.

They delighted Jean by remarking as she tried on a hat, 'My, you look a treat in that!' We bought a great deal more than we needed, for we hadn't the heart to refuse what was brought with such enthusiasm.