The alternative . who go to work always do that, dont they,whether they re qualified or not ? You re a bit sarcastic, are nt you ? I was going to sellbonds, having been solicited to do so, but I ve changed mymind. I m going to get a job with an undertaker. They laughed, at first rather half heartedly, then ten minutes they talked of the past, the present, and thefuture. He gathered that she had assumed the name ofDowning for secretarial purposes only ; that she kept her-self very much in the background in Mrs. Scovilles estab-lishment ; that she had watched his social
The alternative . who go to work always do that, dont they,whether they re qualified or not ? You re a bit sarcastic, are nt you ? I was going to sellbonds, having been solicited to do so, but I ve changed mymind. I m going to get a job with an undertaker. They laughed, at first rather half heartedly, then ten minutes they talked of the past, the present, and thefuture. He gathered that she had assumed the name ofDowning for secretarial purposes only ; that she kept her-self very much in the background in Mrs. Scovilles estab-lishment ; that she had watched his social career withunflagging interest; that she was returning to her ownhome on the following day, with a check for fifteen hundredin her possession ; that she expected to marry if the rightman came along ; that Mrs. Scoville had made her a presentof the gown — and so on and so forth. They discussed thewedding and the hullabaloo it was to create. They unitedin deprecating the impulse which robbed the marriage of y [86].
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