A teacher: "Now, I want to return these three, please, and this is to be transferred to Miss Jimson's card,—she'll be here in a minute, and then I want these two renewed, and I want to get 'The Century of the Child,' and if that isn't in I want—"
Miss V.: "Return the books at the other desk, please.... Oh, would you mind returning my pencil?"
The teacher: "Oh, yes, how stupid of me!"
A woman leading a child: "Haf you de Deutsches Balladenbuch?"
Miss V.: "Will you look it up in the catalogue, please? Over there ... yes,—look up the author's name, just like a dictionary."
A man: "They tell me in the reading-room that you don't have Victoria Cross's novels in the library. Now, I would like to know why that is!"
Miss V.: "You will have to ask the librarian about it,—I have nothing to do with buying the books."
The man: "That's what they told me in the reading-room, and I tried to see him, but he isn't in. Everyone trying to dodge responsibility, I guess. It makes me sick the way these libraries are run." (Addressing the public generally:) "What right have these library people,—paid public servants, public employees, that's all they are—what right have they to dictate what I shall read? Why, her novels are reviewed in all the best papers on the other side."
A voice from the rear of the crowd: "Why don't you do something about it?"