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"Miss Rolfe, Mr Cunnington wants you in the counting-house," exclaimed a youth approaching Marion just after ten o'clock the following morning. She had been in the department early, and was busy re-arranging an autumn costume upon a stand, with a ticket bearing the words, "Paris model, 49 shillings, 11 pence."
The dread words that broke upon her ear caused her young heart to sink within her. As she feared, she was "carpeted."