In this way she passed many manufacturing and wholesale houses without once glancing in.

At last, after several blocks of walking, she felt that this would not do, and began to look about again, though without relaxing her pace.

A little way on she saw a great door which, for some reason, attracted her attention.

It was ornamented by a small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floors.

"Perhaps," she thought, "they may want some one," and crossed over to enter.