“I am hardly in a position to do that.”
“Why not?”
“I am a new member, and my position under you is so well known that it would be very indelicate in me to appear in the matter.”
“For what do you suppose I helped you, then?” he asked severely.
“I did not understand till now.”
“Well, then, drop your talk about delicacy, and get your friends to elect me.”
“I do not think I can do that,” I answered mildly.
“Then you won’t earn your pay?”
“Mr. Whitely, when you made the offer, you put it on an entirely different ground, and it is unfair to claim that it involved any condition that was not then expressed.”
“But you ought to be willing to do it. Haven’t you any gratitude about you?”