"A foot like yours needs a special last shaped to the foot.

I don't make to order now, as a rule, but I'll try wot I can do fer yer, if yer care to leave an order," he said.

He spoke like one in a dream.
She looked at him with a peculiar, intense gaze.

"I should prefer that, but I'm afraid they would be too expensive," she said.
"No, I can do them at the same price as Kling & Wessel's," said Jonah.
Miss Giltinan started and looked sharply from Jonah to his customer.
She knew that was impossible.

And she looked with a frown at this woman who could make Jonah forget his business instincts for a minute.
For she worshipped him in secret, grateful to him for lifting her out of the gutter, and regarded him as the arbiter of her destiny.
He went to the desk and found the sliding rule and tape.