there.”
“Oh, no,”
said
Carrie,
the whole
motive of
the man
flashing
on her at
once. “I
have an
engagement
myself.”
“That’s
too bad,”
he said,
realising
that he
had been a
little
beforehand
in his
offer and
that
Carrie was
about to
go away.
“Come in
later. I
may know
of
something.”
“Thank
you,” she
answered,
with some
trepidation
and went
out. “She
was
good-looking,
wasn’t
she?” said
the
manager’s
companion,
who had
not caught
all the
details of
