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Updated: June 16, 2025
"I tell you I know Punsonby's I've had the best accountants in London working out your position, and I know you live from hand to mouth and that the margin between your business and bankruptcy is as near as the margin between you and prison." Mr. White was very pale. "But that isn't my business and I dare say that the money van Heerden paid you this morning will stave off your creditors.
She laughed. "I think you are very funny, Mr. Beale, but I feel sure that you mean what you say, and that you would confine your er little eccentricities to times outside of business hours. As far as leaving Punsonby's is concerned I promise you that I will give you the first offer of my invaluable services if ever I leave. And now I am afraid I must run away.
"Punsonby's do nothing without a good reason," he said solemnly, feeling that whatever happened he must make a good case for Punsonby's, and that whoever was to blame for this unhappy incident it was not an august firm which paid its fourteen per cent. with monotonous regularity. "We lack ah definite knowledge to proceed any further in this matter than in fact, than we have proceeded.
The head of the firm of Punsonby's, whose credit stands, sir, as a model of sound industrial finance? Oh no, sir." Beale was taken aback. He had depended upon information which came from unimpeachable sources to secure the co-operation of this pompous windbag. "I'm sorry," he said.
She felt more cheerful as she mounted the stairs than she thought would have been possible had such a position been forecast and had she to speculate upon the attitude of mind with which she would meet such a misfortune. Punsonby's, for all the humiliation of her dismissal, seemed fairly unimportant.
"Which, of course, I won't accept," she snapped. "Which, of course, you have accepted," he said quietly. "Believe me, I know nothing more than that Punsonby's have been prevailed upon to discharge you. What reason induced them to take that step, honestly I don't know." "But why did you think so?" He was grave of a sudden. "I just thought so," he said.
"It is not the practice of Punsonby's to give any reason for dispensing with the services of its employees," he said oracularly, "it is sufficient that I should tell you that hitherto you have given every satisfaction, but for reasons which I am not prepared to discuss we must dispense with your services." Her head was in a whirl. She could not grasp what had happened.
White, but added quickly, "except, of course, in so far as the finance of Punsonby's, which is one of the soundest business concerns in London, Mr. McNorton. We pay our dividends regularly and our balance sheets are a model for the industrial world." "So I have heard," said McNorton dryly. "I am interested in syndicates, too. By the way, what is Doctor van Heerden's scheme?" Mr.
The bus set her down at the corner of Punsonby's great block. Punsonby's is one of the most successful and at the same time one of the most exclusive dress-houses in London, and Oliva had indeed been fortunate in securing her present position, for employment at Punsonby's was almost equal to Government employment in its permanency, as it was certainly more lucrative in its pay.
Beale, "with a large crisp slice of chicken and stacks of various vegetables." And he hustled her from the office. Mr. White, managing director of Punsonby's Store, was a man of simple tastes. He had a horror of extravagance and it was his boast that he had never ridden in a taxi-cab save as the guest of some other person who paid.
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