I perceive the impossibility.

I can't have you attending to my wants, however simple.
Neither can I share the services of a secretary whose post, I gather, is an honorary one.

But I simply cannot go back to Mr.Johnston's grin: so if you can put me up for the night--" She had turned away again and was silent for so long that Spence became uneasy.

But at last she spoke.
"This is really too bad of father! He has never done anything quite as absurd as this before.

I don't quite see what he expected to get out of it.