Going Down Fast
“She nodded him gone and slid it into her desk, unopened.
“What’s that?” asked lean virtuous Mrs. Cavenaugh. “We can’t let things pile up without attending to them.”
“No,” Anna said meekly. “I’ll take care of it.”
She kept hopping downstairs but her chance did not come until noon. She told the girl who ran the machines, Oh, go to lunch, I have a little job but I’ll xerox it myself, and showed her a letter she had been holding up. As the girl left, Anna tore open the envelope and without pausing ...to look at the pages, ran them through, crammed all back in the envelope and went at once.
The snow had melted, leaving the lawns a faded watery green. In a block she unbuttoned her coat. The big yellow envelope felt conspicuous. Never had she cheated when she was in school and she had never given her students exams they could cheat at. Nevertheless when Leon had assumed she would help she had not hesitated. Ducking into the Oriental Institute she hurried across the lobby past the guard.MoreLess
“What’s that?” asked lean virtuous Mrs. Cavenaugh. “We can’t let things pile up without attending to them.”
“No,” Anna said meekly. “I’ll take care of it.”
She kept hopping downstairs but her chance did not come until noon. She told the girl who ran the machines, Oh, go to lunch, I have a little job but I’ll xerox it myself, and showed her a letter she had been holding up. As the girl left, Anna tore open the envelope and without pausing ...to look at the pages, ran them through, crammed all back in the envelope and went at once.
The snow had melted, leaving the lawns a faded watery green. In a block she unbuttoned her coat. The big yellow envelope felt conspicuous. Never had she cheated when she was in school and she had never given her students exams they could cheat at. Nevertheless when Leon had assumed she would help she had not hesitated. Ducking into the Oriental Institute she hurried across the lobby past the guard.MoreLess
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