Explore "Wilhelmina in London" by Barry Pain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Being still young and passably beautiful, I had no wish to become a cynic. But the events of the next fortnight tended to make me so. I reverted to my old idea of making a conquest of some big business firm in my belief that I had ideas and could make suggestions and that these were worth money.
I still believe that ideas and suggestions are worth money -- pots of money. I also believe that it is extremely difficult to get a guinea for the best of them.