Jennette Lee,
The Green Jacket — Chapter IX
(1917)
“ Then the face of the woman who had sat in her office flashed back to her—the unshapely black hands in their wrinkled gloves, the strange, sad face—and she knew that Tom's cynical disbelief in her ability to succeed where he had failed, was only a surface ripple on the deep-flowing purpose of her resolve to help the woman who had come to her in trouble. ”
Jennette Lee,
The Green Jacket — Chapter IX
(1917)
“ The woman in gray examined the pearls closely. She took a glass from her purse and ran it over the necklace carefully, as if each detail of the exquisite fashioning of the gold interested her. She returned it to the proprietor with a little smile. "Thank you," she said. The clerk retreated nearer to the door, to take advantage of any favoring chance. But the proprietor accompanied her even to the very door, and opened it for her with a little gesture of deference that the clerk well knew was reserved for incomes of at least five figures. ”
Jennette Lee,
The Green Jacket — Chapter IX
(1917)
“ The door of the private office at last opened and the gray figure stepped out into the main room. And close behind it followed the proprietor himself, accompanying her between the cases, stopping here and there to comment or explain, or lift some piece for her inspection. In the most expensive section, they paused by the case containing the most valuable gems in the store. The proprietor took out a set of pearls and held them toward the woman in gray. The clerk, hovering with anxious ear, heard plainly the words that accompanied the gesture. . . . ”
