"If that's the way you feel about it, you needn't ask my advice again. We're wasting each other's time."
Saying which, Cornelia rose and left the office.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
I
The Paulette manikins, famed throughout the world of fashion for their grace in attitude and correctness in position and movement, owed their prestige to a system of hygienic training conceived and carried out by Harry Kelly himself. Yet these young ladies took their distinction so seriously that they held it beneath them to assist their chief in straightening out the classroom disorder when the period of instruction was over.
"Here's a mess!" called out Mazie Ross, walking into the Paulette gymnasium, immediately after the dismissal of a small class of manikins. "You might think they'd been on a grand jamboree."
"Anything up?" said Harry, shortly.
"Janet asked me to help you this morning."
"What for?"
"She went out for a horseback ride with the St. Hilaires."