[There follows a pause in which he ponders Haise's words, and the seamstress takes this as her cue to assume the well-worn mantle of her sales pitch. Thus does she sweetly chime in.]
I can even knock down the price a bit if it's for you, handsome. [To which she adds under her breath:] My husband runs the shop - I'm sure it won't be too hard to win his forgiveness. A woman has her ways, you know. [And smoothly she forges forward.] I can't have a customer leave unhappy, no sir. Take a look around, won't you? If you see something you like, I can take it in or let it out for you in a jiff. You'll have it by the time you sit down for supper tonight - that's the Cactus guarantee!
[Achilles regards her still with pinched brow but his ire has ebbed. It is Haise moreso than this obsequious seamstress who sways him, for he remembers well the inconvenience of having only one set of garments: throughout his time upon the shores of Nalawi and again across the wilds of Zeta-12 he had had only the tunic upon his back, which became shabbier with every passing trial through which he toiled. He would not wish for his new garments to follow the same fate.]
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I can even knock down the price a bit if it's for you, handsome. [To which she adds under her breath:] My husband runs the shop - I'm sure it won't be too hard to win his forgiveness. A woman has her ways, you know. [And smoothly she forges forward.] I can't have a customer leave unhappy, no sir. Take a look around, won't you? If you see something you like, I can take it in or let it out for you in a jiff. You'll have it by the time you sit down for supper tonight - that's the Cactus guarantee!
[Achilles regards her still with pinched brow but his ire has ebbed. It is Haise moreso than this obsequious seamstress who sways him, for he remembers well the inconvenience of having only one set of garments: throughout his time upon the shores of Nalawi and again across the wilds of Zeta-12 he had had only the tunic upon his back, which became shabbier with every passing trial through which he toiled. He would not wish for his new garments to follow the same fate.]
Very well, I shall look.