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He walked with the quick, bustling
activity that was ordinarily expressed in his every movement. He
paused for an instant, as he beheld the two visitors in the
center of the room, then he spoke curtly to the secretary, while
crossing to his chair at the desk.
"You may go, Sarah. I will ring when I wish you again."
There followed an interval of silence, while the secretary was
leaving the office and the girl with her warder stood waiting on
his pleasure. Gilder cleared his throat twice in an
embarrassment foreign to him, before finally he spoke to the
girl. At last, the proprietor of the store expressed himself in
a voice of genuine sympathy, for the spectacle of wo presented
there before his very eyes moved him to a real distress, since it
was indeed actual, something that did not depend on an
appreciation to be developed out of imagination.
"My girl," Gilder said gently--his hard voice was softened by an
honest regret--"my girl, I am sorry about this."
"You should be!" came the instant answer. Yet, the words were
uttered with a total lack of emotion.


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