"Oh, some of them can hardly see out of their eyes for gentility. I delight in it myself, though I've never attained to it. I'm told you see it in its finest flower in the suburbs. A friend of mine was going out by train to Colinton, and she overheard two girls talking. One said, 'I was at a dence lest night.' The other, rather condescendingly, replied, 'Oh, really! And who do you dence with out at Colinton?' 'It depends,' said the first girl. 'Lest night, for instance, I was up to my neck in advocates.' ... Priorsford's pretty genteel too. You know the really genteel by the way they say 'Good-bai.' The rest of us who pride ourselves on not being provincial say--you may have noticed--'Good-ba--a.'" Pamela laughed, and said she had noticed the superior accent of Priorsford. "Jean and I were much interested in the difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow shops. Not in the things they sell--the shops in both places are most excellent--but in the manner of selling. The girls in the Edinburgh shops are nice and obliging--the war-time manner doesn't seem to have reached shop-assistants in Scotland, luckily--but quite Londonish with their manners and their 'Moddom.' In Glasgow, they give one such a feeling of personal interest. You would really think it mattered to them what you chose. They delighted Jean by remarking as she tried on a hat, 'My, you look a treat in that!' We bought a great deal more than we needed, for we hadn't the heart to refuse what was brought with such enthusiasm. 'I don't know what it is about that hat, but it's awful nice somehow Distinctive, if you know what I mean. I think when you get it home you'll like it awful well--' Who would refuse a hat after such a recommendation?" "Who indeed! Oh, they're a hearty people. Has Jean got the fur coat she coveted?"