"With the suit, Christine wore a grey felt beret which had been sold to her cheaply by Mrs Arnold in Millinery, because it had a mark on the back and no customer would buy it. Women were absurdly fussy when they had money to spend. When they were walking along they were just ordinary women, quite meek and obeying the policeman at the crossing; but as soon as Goldwyn's commissionaire, who bought his medals at the Surplus Supply stores in the , had pushed open the swing doors for them, they became customers, and that made them arrogant. Christine had easily removed the mark on the hat with some lighter fluid. Any woman could have done the same; but to have noticed the mark with a shrewd mouth, to have refused to buy the polluted hat made them feel recherché."
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(434 pages; 1st edition 1953, published by Michael Joseph)
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Monica Dickens
, (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English best-selling novelist, memoirist, autobiographer, and the author of the 1973 non-fiction book Talking of Horses. She was appointed in the (MBE).
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