The Chinese Coat

· 1951

Eleanor MORE walked away from the coat. She looked back at it across the glass case of fichus and ribbon bows, and went on down the aisle of show-cases to the coats and suits at the end. Stewart’s was having a sale of coats and suits, and Eleanor More was there—not because she could afford to buy anything, even at a sale, but because she was a woman. She had been passing the store and seen the crowd pressing in through the wide doors... She had hesitated a minute and gone in.…

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