I don't care if you never write a line for the thing, though you needn't reject anything of yours, if it happens to be good, on that account.

And I don't want much experience in my editor; rather not have it.

You told me, didn't you, that you used to do some newspaper work before you settled down ?" "Yes; I thought my lines were permanently cast in those places once.

It was more an accident than anything else that I got into the insurance business.

I suppose I secretly hoped that if I made my living by something utterly different, I could come more freshly to literature proper in my leisure." "I see; and you found the insurance business too many, for you.