Now, don't decline, please.

Let me tell you about it.

I can see that you have plans ahead, for this business; but it can't hurt you much to put them off six months, say.

Meantime, you could be practicing.

Our place at Santa Ulrica is almost as big as this one; there are lots of servants and a great, weary maze of accounts to be kept, and it wouldn't be bad practice for you--now, would it ?" Diantha's troubled eyes lit up.