"My name is Nathaniel Duncan. Mr. Graham has been kind enough to take me on as apprentice, so to speak."
Her stare continued, intense, resentful, undeviating.
"You mean you're going to work here?"
"That my intention, Miss Graham." He nodded gravely.
"What for?"
"To learn the drug business."
"Oh-h!" She flung herself a pace away, impatiently. "I'm not a child, and I don't want to be talked to like one."
"I didn't mean to annoy you——"
"Well, you do. You've got no business in a run-down place like this— you with your fine clothes and your fine airs. You didn't come here to learn the drug business; you know as well as I do you've got some other motive."