It came to be the chic and proper thing to appear at them in shades of mauve or purple.

A pushing little woman in Hanover Street designed the "Denton" bodice, with hanging sleeves and square-cut neck.

The younger men inclined towards a coat shaped to the waist with a roll collar.
Joan sighed.

It looked as if the word had been passed round to treat the whole thing as a joke.

Mrs.Denton took a different view.
"Nothing better could have happened," she was of opinion.