Chapter III

Linda started work in Lorne and Dodwell’s on the Monday morning as had been arranged, and for the first few days she found life the most bewildering and strange thing. The business into which she had been so eager to enter, proved at first to be anything but a bed of roses. “I never would have believed I could be so stupid,” she told Mrs. Lovelace almost in tears. “It’s taken all the conceit out of me!” She laughed with the tears in her eyes. “Not that it isn’t perfectly lovely all the same,” she added breathlessly…