"When I came, sir, you gave me six shillings a week, now you give me ten; but there's a difference between ten shillings and two guineas."
"Yes, Mr. Gibb, and there's a difference between you and Miss Lindsay."
"Don't I know it, sir? There's all the difference in the world."
"As you say, there's all the difference in the world. Miss Lindsay is a divinity among women."
"That's exactly my opinion, sir; and has been from the first."
"It has been your opinion, has it, Mr. Gibb? Then allow me to inform you that when I enter into an undertaking with--with a divinity among women, to do a certain thing, I do that thing. I have undertaken to pay Miss Lindsay two guineas a week; I will pay her two guineas a week. The money shall be found; I will find it. Be so good, Mr. Gibb, as to look up those papers you spoke about, and see that they are in a presentable condition, so that Miss Lindsay can begin on them directly she arrives."
CHAPTER XXIII
[A JOBBING SECRETARY]
The next morning Nora did not start for Fountain Court with Mr. Gibb; he positively forbade her, explaining that he had certain duties to perform immediately on his arrival which he preferred, and which Mr. Hooper preferred, that he should perform before anybody else appeared upon the scene; so he started at half-past nine, and she followed thirty minutes later. When she reached Fountain Court the door was promptly opened by Mr. Gibb, who called her attention to a curtained recess, with the remark--
"Please hang your hat and coat up there."