I want to be rid of the whole thing," she said after a pause.
Gabriella nodded comprehendingly.

"I believe I could carry it on successfully," she repeated.

"Your customers like me.

I think I understand how the business ought to be run.

I have been here ten years, and I feel perfectly confident that I could make it successful." "I've had offers--good offers," observed Madame warily, for she was incapable of liberating herself at the age of seventy-two from the lifelong suspicion that some one was taking advantage of her, that something was being got from her for nothing, "and, of course, I was only joking about having to stop work," she added, "I am retiring from choice, not from necessity." "I understand," agreed Gabriella quietly.
"But I should like you to have the name," pursued Madame "A little money would be necessary, of course--perhaps you might buy a half interest--that would be simple.