She was fumbling in her change purse as he turned back to shut the door.
Because of events during the talk the interviewer reached for her change purse to find and offer another quarter.
Before the epiphany, she kept that piece of paper in her purse for months, even when she would change purses.
The cover photograph, which can not be reproduced in a family newspaper, is ingenious -- a bright-pink change purse, unclasped, viewed from above.
Watch a Frenchman count his coppers, or an Englishman that carries his in a change purse and talks about pounds but really thinks in shillings.
The New Yorker continued to set stiff in his chair, one hand on his watch and one on the pocket where his change purse was that he'd tried to pay his share of the taxicabs out of.
She was fumbling in her change purse as he turned back to shut the door.
All she would need would be her little case for tickets, and her change purse, and her evening cloak had pockets.
