Sadie felt cheered and encouraged, and although Bob sometimes spent in careless talk an hour or two that might have been better employed, she was willing to make up for his neglect by extra work in the office at night.
He was doing well and she began to be hopeful.
One evening, however, when there were goods to be entered and bills written out, he went home for supper and did not come back.

Sadie stopped in the office long after the clerk had gone, but when she put down her pen the stove was out and she was surprised to find how late it was.

She felt tired and annoyed, for she had been busily occupied since morning, and suspected that Bob was telling amusing stories while she did his work.

Then in shutting up the store she forgot her rubber over-shoes, and the sidewalk was plastered with sticky mud.

She wore rather expensive slippers and thought they would be spoiled.
Charnock was not about when she entered the hotel, and the guests seemed to have gone to bed.