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"Drive to the best department store in town," he told the driver,
briefly.
Once in the store he summoned the manager and briefly stated his
needs. The young lady must be furnished with everything she needed,
and as quickly as possible. She needed, it appeared, about
everything. The shrewd young Jew looked her over with his trained
eyes.
"Should you prefer our Miss Smith to proffer aid and advice? Miss
Smith is an expert."
Mr. Champneys reacted almost with terror against Nancy Simms's
probable choice.
"See that the young lady gets the best you have; and make Miss
Smith the final authority," he said, briefly.
At the end of two hours Nancy returned, the two clerks and the
manager accompanying her. The store people were slightly flushed,
Nancy herself sullenly acquiescent. For the first time in her life
she had had the opportunity to buy enough clothes of her own, and
yet she hadn't been allowed to choose what she really wanted. Gently
but inexorably they had rejected the garments Nancy selected,
smoothly insisting that these weren't "just the thing" for her.


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