My dear, I should like to see you dressed up just for once, as we have seen them at the theater." "Well, I should like one velvet dress in my life.

Only one.

And it should be crimson--a beautiful, deep, dark crimson." "Very good.

And you would drive in a carriage instead of an omnibus; you would sit in the stalls instead of the upper circle; you would give quantities of money to poor people; and you would buy as many second hand books as you pleased.

There are rich people, I believe, ostentatious people, who buy new books.