Chillzee English - Web Novel - The Priceless Pearl - 02 - Alice Duer Miller

There was a minute's pause, and then the president said with a slight smile, "Well, Mr. Bunner, I think we all see what you meant when you said this young woman was a disturbing element in the office."

"There has never been anything like this before," said Bunner; "never anything in the least like this anywhere I have ever been."

"Well," said the treasurer, "I don't suppose we need distress ourselves about her finding another job."

There was a certain wistful undercurrent in his tone.

"No," said Bunner, slightly misunderstanding his meaning. "She is competent and industrious."

"She ought to get married, a pretty girl like that--not go about making trouble in offices," said the president.

"I have always been of the opinion," said the third vice president,

"that it would be much simpler to run the office entirely with men."

"Oh, it would be much better--much better, of course," said Bunner;

"only women are so much more accurate about detail, more