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I could n't help thinking that the years when Lena literally had n't enough clothes to cover herself might have something to do with her untiring interest in dressing the human figure . Her clients said that Lena ` had style , ' and overlooked her habitual inaccuracies . She never , I discovered , finished anything by the time she had promised , and she frequently spent more money on materials than her customer had authorized . Once , when I arrived at six o'clock , Lena was ushering out a fidgety mother and her awkward , overgrown daughter . The woman detained Lena at the door to say apologetically : ` You 'll try to keep it under fifty for me , wo n't you , Miss Lingard ? You see , she 's really too young to come to an expensive dressmaker , but I knew you could do more with her than anybody else . ' ` Oh , that will be all right , Mrs. Herron .