human
I'll see you presently, she said, and burst out into the large office. Instantly the roomful of people, lounging about waiting their turn, came to attention. She rushed in among them like a gale, whirling away the straws and chaff before her, and leaving only the things that were worth while. She snapped a yellow envelope from a boy's hand, and even while she was ripping it open with a big forefinger, she was reading the card of an astonished traveling-man:
gpt
No, sir; no, sir; your bid was one-half of one per cent, over Heintz. Your people been customers so long that they thought that I--? I never mix business and friendship! She stood still long enough to run her eye over the drawing of a patent, and toss it back to the would-be inventor.
human
No, I don't care to take it up with you. Cast it for you? Certainly. I'll cast anything for anybody ; and the man found his blueprint in his hand before he could begin his explanation.
gpt
What? Johnson wants to know where to get the new housing to replace the one that broke yesterday? Tell Johnson that's what I pay him to decide. I have no time to do his business for him--my own is all I can attend to! Mr. Ferguson! she called out, as she came banging back into the private office,