“I didn’t say that, Mr. Pendleton,” she interrupted.
“What did you say, then?”
“I said that here in the office––”
“Oh, I see. Then scratch that sentence out.”
She scratched it out.
“Have it read this way”:––
Our Miss Winthrop informs me––
“Why need you bring me in at all?” she asked.
“Please don’t interrupt.”
––informs me that, owing to the lack of privacy in the office, you cannot discuss these matters here with me. Therefore I suggest that, as long as the luncheon hour is no longer convenient (for the same reasons), an arrangement be made whereby I may have the pleasure of dining with you some evening.