Quotation from: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Written by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers
without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so
much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting
that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal.


"'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked.


"'If you please, Miss Stoper.'


"'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the
most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You
can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such
opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong
upon the table, and I was shown out by the page.

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