14/24 And she takes jolly good care not to scandalize a client. She finds Adams--she tells me--so severe at the least jest or personality that she only talks to him now on business matters, and finds him a great stand-by; and the other day she told Miss A .-- as you call the senior clerk--she ought to be ashamed of herself, bringing in a copy of the _Vie Parisienne_. The way she settled Mrs.Gordon's affairs--you remember, No. 3875 you catalogued the case--was masterly; and Mrs. commission on the recovered property. |