I worked as steadily as I could, considering interruptions, and the forenoon was over almost before I knew it.
The interruptions, however, were numerous and annoying; some of them, too, were amusing.

Depositors came, saw me behind the bars of the window, and, after expressing their astonishment, demanded to know what I was doing there.

If I had answered all the questions put to me by the curious Denboroites I should have found time for little else.

But Taylor helped me by shooing the curious ones away.

"Don't bother the new hand," he said.