nearly ten o'clock
Already Win had learned that a `` lemon '' or a `` pill '' was a customer who made as much trouble as possible for as small as possible a return ; but it gave her a stab to hear Peter Rolls 's great department store called a `` sweat shop . '' Again she saw the eyes . Was she never to get rid of the memory of those hypocritical blue eyes ? Nobody thought of being ready for home until nearly ten o'clock ; and long before that Miss Stein 's nerves felt as if they had been run , like threads , through the eyes of hot needles . Again Win had helped her in the afternoon by placing blouses of congenial colours together on the counters instead of letting them lie anyhow , as Miss Stein , in her recklessness , would have done . But less than ever had the elder girl seen reason for thanking Miss Child when the second instalment of `` punk '' goods was brought out of `` reserve . '' If the first lot had not gone off so soon they would not have been saddled with this , and so 2884 had , in Miss Stein 's estimation , done nothing at the end of the day except `` show herself off '' and make everybody work twice as hard as necessary .