Well, you're one of the smartest business ladies I've come across yet in this country, and I should figure that's quite as good as the other.
Now--well, of course, we held back a little when we engaged you, and you can tell the cashier to hand you out another two dollars every Saturday." Nellie Townshead felt that the colour was in her cheeks, but she thanked the man, and gathering up her papers hastened down the gangway at the last moment.

She stopped a moment breathless when she reached the wharf and saw Deringham and his daughter drive away, and shut one little hand.

Then she laughed, and turned towards the city with a gesture of impatience.

"The two dollars are badly needed--and I'm a little fool, but it hurt, all of it," she said..