A  LITTLE pile of opened letters, with their neatly-slit envelopes pinned to them,lay beside the typewriter on the desk: the girl who sat back from the desk in her comfortable chair, reading a novel, was tall, but not too tall; she had piquantly irregular features, brown hair with reddish shades init, and deep, blue eyes,
long-lashed. Her principal attraction was expressiveness, both of eyes and lips,though she could render her face as wooden as a doorpost if she chose.