“Never! so we ought to be used to it by this time.”
“What do you advise?”
“Madame is too valuable a customer to lose.”
“Yes, indeed.”
“I’d send Floy. No one else is competent except yourself.”
“That’s true; yes, she’ll have to go, though I don’t know how to spare her here.”
Hastening back to the work-room,
“Is that dress done, Miss Kemper?” she asked.
“I’m just setting the last stitches,” was the reply.
“Well, the minute you’re done put on your things and take it home; then go on from there to the address I shall give you. She’s a good customer—rich, middle-aged, queer, and must be humored in her notions. She thinks she must have a new dress immediately, though she has fifty already. You’ll probably have to stay two or three days, as she will have her gowns made in the house, and a great deal of work put on them.”