"All right," she said, without emotion.
"Now," he said, "if you wish to remain in another capacity—if you wish to be Mrs. Russell’s maid——”
"That’s for you to decide, of course; but it’s a pleasant, easy position, and the pay is better."
"I’m not thinking so much about pay. I could have got plenty of jobs that would have paid twice as much as this. Only——”
"Why did you want this?" he asked, with interest.
"Well, I thought I’d——” Her dark face flushed. "I want to learn—nice ways. I want to get on. I don’t want to be—like I am, all my life."
"You’re perfectly right!" he said, looking at her. "I’m glad to see you’re ambitious; but why choose this sort of way to get on? Why don’t you try to get into a good office?"
She shook her head.
"No! It wouldn’t do me a bit of good to get ahead in business if I—didn’t have nice ways. No! I watched the papers a long time for something I could have a try at, and then I saw Mrs. Russell’s ad, with ‘experience unnecessary.’ I knew I wasn’t the kind of girl that they want for a companion, but I thought if I could show ’em that I could be more useful than any one else, I might stand a chance."