"Perhaps you'd prefer some wings; or stay, here is a sweet little gull that will go all right with the rest of the trimming.

We will take off the oriole if you wish." "Thank you, but I have decided not to wear birds any more," said the customer.
"But the effect would be quite spoiled without a wing, or an aigrette, or something there," exclaimed the milliner.

"You wouldn't like it.

I wouldn't think of taking off the bird, if I were you." "Yes, I shall like it much better with the bird off," returned the lady quietly.

"I have sufficient sins to answer for without any longer adding the crime of bird slaughter to the list." The milliner bestowed on her a pitying smile, but evidently was too politic to get into a discussion of an unpleasant subject.