endorsement of his first post-publication cheque from Cappers. It amounted, I may tell you, to nineteen thousand pounds, four shillings and twopence.
At the same time Chloë set herself stoutly to realise that high ambition which dwells in every girl's heart, namely, to be the best-dressed woman in the world. A most horrible orgy of spending took place. Henceforward her days were passed wholly in Hanover Square and its purlieus. She lived surrounded by smiling modistes, smirking cutters, beaming skirt-hands, and ogling mannequins.
In her huge scarlet Bournville limousine she drove from dressmaker to milliner, from milliner to bootmaker, from bootmaker to corsetière, from corsetière to lingerie maker, from lingerie maker to glover, from glover to stocking merchant, from stocking merchant to furrier, from
