He watched her quietly for a day, and then he applied the best remedy he knew.
"You've just finished a long, hard piece of work," he said in his crisp, matter-of-fact way, on the second morning after her arrival.
"There is going to be a delay here while we shape things up for the winter, and it is my custom to keep my people in the very best condition to work right up to the standard.

So you are all going to have a two-weeks vacation, Jean-of-the-Lazy-A.

At full salary, of course; and to put you yourself into the true holiday spirit, I'm going to raise your salary to a hundred and seventy-five a week.

I consider you worth it," he added, with a quieting gesture of uplifted hand, "or you may be sure I wouldn't pay it.
"Get some nice old lady to chaperone you, and go and play.

The ocean is good; get somewhere on the beach.