"Let her wait a moment. I suppose she takes the line that we've definitely engaged her?"
"I don't know, sir, that she takes what you might call a line; but there's no doubt she believes herself engaged. She talks very frankly, and is altogether a nice, pleasant-spoken young person."
"You didn't happen to find out what my father wrote to her?"
"Of her own accord she offered to show me his letter."
"Well, and what did it say?"
"I didn't read it, sir."
"You didn't read it?" Mr. Sam repeated in slow astonishment.
"No, sir. I felt it wasn't fair to her," said Mr. Benny.
His employer regarded him for a moment with sourly meditative eyes.
"You had best show her in at once," he commanded sharply.