I will let you know exactly when." She went on spinning her little machine, and did not contradict him.
Clara came to Jordan's.

Some of the older hands, Fanny among them, remembered her earlier rule, and cordially disliked the memory.

Clara had always been "ikey", reserved, and superior.

She had never mixed with the girls as one of themselves.

If she had occasion to find fault, she did it coolly and with perfect politeness, which the defaulter felt to be a bigger insult than crassness.