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"Yes, I went to New York yesterday, and, if you'll believe me, my dear, I never had such a day in all my life! You see, I thought I'd shop a little in the morning, and then meet John for luncheon, and go to the matinée afterward. Well, we did all that, but such a time as I had doing it!
"I didn't go in town with John. He goes on that eight-thirty-nine-all our best commuters do; but it's too early for me to get off. He said we'd lunch at a swell hotel-John's a perfect dear about such things, if we have been married nearly two years. So, of course, I wanted to look my bestest, and I put on my new blue gown. I'd never had it on before, and-Yes, it is a hobble skirt; but I begged Miss Threadley not to make it extreme. I do hate extreme fashions. So she said she'd make a modified hobble, a hobblette, she calls it-and she assured me it would be all right. It's a perfect beauty, my dear; but, good land! It's exactly the shape of a bolster slip, and round the knees it's fitted tightly and boned.