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I have some material here I wish to exchange-I say I have-Will you kindly wait on me? -Busy? -I have some-Now, I must be waited on; I'm in a great hurry! Oh, very well. I have some material here I wish to exchange. It's marquisette, but it isn't the right shade. Not marquisette? -Chiffon marquisine? Well, I don't care if it's linsey-woolsey! I want to exchange it, or rather, return it. No, I don't have a charge account; I want the money back. Please give it to me quickly. I'm going to a matinée-What! You can't take it back here? I must go to the desk? Why, I bought it here, right at this counter, of that thin girl with the hectic flush. She doesn't look well, does she? She ought to go to some good sanatorium. Well, you see this chiffon, or whatever it is, is the wrong shade. I asked for elephant's breath, and this is more on the shade of frightened mouse. It doesn't match my satin at all. -Oh, dear, how unaccommodating you are! Well, where is the desk? Ask the floor-walker?
Oh, very well! -Please direct me to the desk. What desk? I don't know, I'm sure! Any desk will suit me. I want to return some goods that doesn't match my own material, and you know, this season, if-Near the rear door? -Of course they'd put it as far away as possible!