The next day Mr. Harmer sent word to Patty that he wanted to see her . `` So Clifford is leaving , '' he said abruptly when she entered the office . `` Well , do you want his place ? '' `` Mr. Harmer , are you joking ? '' demanded Patty in amazement . `` Not I . That stuff you handed in was splendidly written -- I did n't have to use the pencil more than once or twice . You have the proper journalist instinct all right . We need a lady on the staff anyhow , and if you 'll take the place it 's yours for saying so , and the permanency next month . '' `` I 'll take it , '' said Patty promptly and joyfully . `` Good . Go down to the Symphony Club rehearsal this afternoon and report it . You 've just ten minutes to get there , '' and Patty joyfully and promptly departed . Anna 's Love Letters `` Are you going to answer Gilbert 's letter tonight , Anna ? '' asked Alma Williams , standing in the pantry doorway , tall , fair , and grey-eyed , with the sunset light coming down over the dark firs , through the window behind her , and making a primrose nimbus around her shapely head . Anna , dark , vivid , and slender , was perched on the edge of the table , idly swinging her slippered foot at the cat 's head . She smiled wickedly at Alma before replying . `` I am not going to answer it tonight or any other night , '' she said , twisting her full , red lips in a way that Alma had learned to dread . Mischief was ripening in Anna 's brain when that twist was out . `` What do you mean ? ''
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