He was a hard-featured man, who was a good man of business, but was not open to sentimental consideration.
"Didn't you know our rules?" he asked.
"Yes, sir; but this was a case of necessity."
"I beg your pardon, miss, it is a matter of business. When you have finished the batch we will pay you, and not till then."
"But, sir, I need the money very much."
"That is your affair, not ours. Probably you have friends and can borrow money, if you need it sooner than we are ready to pay it to you."
"I don't know where to find them," thought Rose, but she did not say this.
The superintendent had already turned away, as if to intimate that he had no more time to give her. Rose walked to the elevator slowly and sadly, and descended to the main store.
"What shall I do?" she thought. "Mrs. Flanagan will turn us out, and then poor Addie will suffer."