We always help customers all we can.
You see our experience--living right among books all the time--that sort of thing makes us able to help a customer make a selection, you know." "Now does it, indeed?
It is part of your business, then ?" "Yes'm, we always help." "How good it is of you.

Some people would think it rather obtrusive, perhaps, but I don't--I think it is real kindness--even charity.

Some people jump to conclusions without any thought--you have noticed that ?" "O yes," said the clerk, a little perplexed as to whether to feel comfortable or the reverse; "Oh yes, indeed, I've often noticed that, ma'm." "Yes, they jump to conclusions with an absurd heedlessness.

Now some people would think it odd that because you, with the budding tastes and the innocent enthusiasms natural to your time of life, enjoyed the Vampires and the volume of nursery jokes, you should imagine that an older person would delight in them too--but I do not think it odd at all.
I think it natural--perfectly natural in you.

And kind, too.