berk

Berk, a woman, helps Gibson look marginally less like a dangerous, fire-breathing misogynist.

Certainly not; we never call them the States, and with us c-l-e-r-k spells clerk, and B-e-r-k Berk.

The oysters came from the usual place, but I'm in high feather, Berk, for I have the best cook in town.

Berk Matthews is allowed, or rather he comes without being allowed, being a favorite and liable to take his own way.

"Berk was entirely too keen when he said I had a special purpose in going to town periodically," she began.

There's another way out of it, Berk; the place reverts to Verlinda in the event of Grace's death.