And if I did scare a customer," she added, laughing, as she dropped the money in the till, "it was not before he had done buying." "That may be; but we must look to to-morrow as well as to-day.

When is Mr.Helmer likely to come near us again, after such a wipe as you must have given him to make him go off like that ?" "Just to-morrow, George, I fancy," answered Mary.

"He won't be able to bear the thought of having left a bad impression on me, and so he'll come again to remove it.

After all, there's something about him I can't help liking.

I said nothing that ought to have put him out of temper like that, though; I only called him a boy." "Let me tell you, Mary, you could not have called him a worse name." "Why, what else is he ?" "A more offensive word a man could not hear from the lips of a woman," said George loftily.
"A man, I dare say! But Mr.Helmer can't be nineteen yet." "How can you say so, when he told you himself he would be of age in a few months?
The fellow is older than I am.