It is astounding how few of them have the slightest idea what they are looking for." "But I want to get that hat right.

I left it unfinished, and I don't like to give up while it is wrong," replied Gabriella, not wholly pleased by the command.
But Madame, of a flightier substance notwithstanding her business talents, waved aside the remark as insignificant and without bearing upon her immediate purpose.
"I am going to try you with the gowns," she said resolutely; "I want to see if you catch on there as quickly as you did with the hats--I mean with the sale, of course, for your work, I'm sorry to say, has been rather poor so far.

But I'll try you with the next customer who comes to place a large order.

They are always so eager for new suggestions, and you have suggestions of a sort to make, I am sure.

I can't quite tell," she concluded uncertainly, "whether or not your ideas have any practical value, but they sound well as you describe them, and to talk attractively helps; there is no doubt of that." It was closing time, and Miss Fisher, one of the skirt fitters, came up, in her black alpaca apron with a pair of scissors suspended by red tape from her waist, to ask Madame a question.