The night before, as she lay thinking about her business, it had all seemed very easy to her; but now it was quite a different thing.

No one seemed to take any notice of her, or to feel the least interest in the great mission she had undertaken.

But Katy was aware that it requires some effort in these days to sell goods, and she must work; she must ask people to buy her candy.
There was a nice-looking gentleman, with a good-natured face, coming down the street, and she resolved to make a beginning with him.

He couldn't say much more than no to her, and she placed herself in a position to accost him.

But when he came near enough, her courage all oozed out, and she let him pass without speaking to him.
"What a fool I am!" exclaimed she to herself when he had passed.