GIBSON: Yes, I knew what they got.
NORA [_triumphantly_]: We cut those commissions from thirty-seven
dollars--to _twelve_! And that's just one more item among our economies.
Now do you wonder at the success we're making?
GIBSON: And your profits have been--satisfactory?
NORA: The very first month our profits were _four thousand dollars_ more
than the last month you were there!
GIBSON: That's the month you say you cut out four thousand seven
hundred dollars' worth of advertising.
NORA: And the next month we cut down the commissions, and the profits
were _five_ thousand more!
GIBSON: But those were returns under the old commissions.
NORA: But last month, with new economies, we showed a larger profit than
you had!
GIBSON: And this month?
NORA: We shan't know that until the report's read at the meeting
to-morrow. I think it will be the largest profit of all.
CARTER: That bookkeeper's workin' on it to-day. Talked like he was going
to cut us down two or three thousand, mebbe. [_Laughing._] That's the
way he always talks.
NORA: He isn't a good influence.
CARTER: No--too gloomy, too gloomy to suit me!
GIBSON: What about the two other bookkeepers?
CARTER: The committee voted them into the packing department; and they
ain't much good even there. It's a crime!
NORA: They weren't needed. Our bookkeeping is so simplified since you
left!
GIBSON: It all seems to be simplified, Miss Gorodna.
NORA: Yes; and whatever problems come up, they're all settled at our
meetings.
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