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Bonnets and hats, at
five or seven guineas apiece, swelled the account. Parasols and fans
were of fabulous price, as it seemed to Lesbia; and the shoes and
stockings to match her various gowns occurred again and again between
the more important items, like the refrain of an old ballad. All the
useless and unnessary things which she had ordered, because she thought
them pretty or because she was told they were fashionable, rose up
against her in the figures of the bill, like the record of forgotten
sins at the Day of Judgment.
She sank into a chair, pallid with consternation, and sat with the bill
in her lap, turning the pages listlessly, and staring at the figures.
'It cannot be so much,' she cried to herself. 'It must be added up
wrong;' and then she feebly tried to cast up a column; but arithmetic
not being one of those accomplishments which Lady Maulevrier deemed
necessary to a patrician beauty's success in life, Lesbia's education
had been somewhat neglected upon this point, and she flung the bill from
her in a rage, unable to hold the figures in her brain.


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