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Margaret was wonderful. She brought the dressmakers from the shops. She had impressed the people in the shops where she bought these clothes that, after all, our lady Cabinet officer had to be properly dressed and promptly. So they sent their dressmakers up to the house to refit them, did rush jobs doing them. It was perfectly extraordinary.

Anyhow, one way or another we got off. We got these new clothes. I don't remember that I got a new hat. I had a nice little black tricorn with a touch of white on the side. My mother bought me a tricorn hat when I was twelve years old. She said to me then, “There, my dear, that is your hat.” I know where it came from. We bought it at Lamston & Hubbard in Boston, the best hatters in Boston. In those days the tricorn hat was a lady's riding hat. It was what young ladies and young girls wore when they went horseback riding. You wore a tricorn hat, either of felt or of milan straw. This particular hat was made of cream colored milan straw. It was meant for a lady's riding hat. My mother had been displeased with the hats that she was able to find for me in milliners' shops. I was a little girl just beginning to be a big girl. Children's hats looked funny. I was in the growing girl period. She put that hat on me at Lamston & Hubbard and said, “There, my dear, that is your hat. You should always wear a hat something like