from side to side, and spit out her _t's_ in a way actually alarming to Bunner, who was a man susceptible to fear.
"Our decision is quite final--quite final, I'm sorry to say," he said, fussing with his papers as a hint that she had better go and leave him in peace.
"That's why I want to speak to him."
"Quite impossible," answered Bunner. "The board is meeting at present in his room----"
"What!" cried Pearl. "They're all there together, are they?" And before the office manager took in her intention she was out of his office, across the main office and in the board room.
Like so many people destined to succeed in New York, Pearl came originally from Ohio. She was an orphan, and after her graduation from an Eastern college she had gone back to her native state, meaning to make her home with her two aunts. It had not been a successful summer.
Not only was it hot, and there was no swimming where her aunts lived, and Pearl loved to swim, but two of her cousins fell in love with her--one from each family--and it became a question either of their leaving home or of her going. So Pearl very gladly came East again, and under the guidance of her great friend Augusta Exeter began to look for a job.
She had come East in September, and it was now July--hardly