In the meanwhile, the man talked assiduously, if somewhat at random, and was contented when he found that he could keep the girl's attention occupied so that she scarcely noticed how often he refilled her plate.

At last, as he passed a great cluster of fruit across, he said, "It's time you did the talking now.

You are going right ahead in this city ?" The girl's face quivered for a second, and her fingers moved nervously, "I am afraid I have not commenced yet," she said.
"No ?" said Alton.

"Now Susie Thomson told me you were running a typewriter for somebody." A tinge of carmine flickered into the cheek of his companion and faded swiftly again.

"I was," she said.