THE door opened and Michael Gosselyn looked up. Julia came in.
"Hulloa! I won't keep you a minute. I was just signing some letters."
"No hurry. I only came to see what seats had been sent to the Dennorants.
What's that young man doing here?"
With the experienced actress's instinct to fit the gesture to the word, by a
Movement of her neat head she indicated the room through which she had
Just passed.
"He's the accountant. He comes from Lawrence and Hamphreys. He's been
here three days."
"He looks very young."
"He's an articled clerk. He seems to know his job. He can't get over the way
Our accounts are kept. He told me he never expected a theatre to be run on
Such businesslike lines. He says the way some of those firms in the city keep
their accounts is enough to turn your hair grey."
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