Design, direct, scold, and flatter.

We are getting in the spring models now, and it's very exciting." He glanced down at her figure, noting, as if for the first time, the narrowness at the feet, the large loose waist, and the bunchiness around the hips.
"Did you make that ?" he inquired.
"This coat?
Oh, no; it came from Paris.

It was left on my hands," she explained, "or I shouldn't be wearing it.

I wear only what people won't buy, you know." "No, I didn't know," he returned abstractedly, and she observed humorously after a minute that he was not thinking of her because he was thinking so profoundly about her clothes.

It was his way, she had discovered, to concentrate his mind intensely upon the object before him, no matter how trivial or insignificant it might appear.