She might find another and better later.
Her subsequent experiences were not of a reassuring nature, however.
From all the more pleasing or imposing places she was turned away abruptly with the most chilling formality.

In others where she applied only the experienced were required.

She met with painful rebuffs, the most trying of which had been in a manufacturing cloak house, where she had gone to the fourth floor to inquire.
"No, no," said the foreman, a rough, heavily built individual, who looked after a miserably lighted workshop, "we don't want any one.

Don't come here." With the wane of the afternoon went her hopes, her courage, and her strength.

She had been astonishingly persistent.