You can see yourself what it means to have a competent secretary.

And you like the work.

You've just admitted that you like it." He saw the light begin to fade from her eyes.

She shook her head.
"If you are going to suggest that I go with you as your secretary," she said with her old bluntness, "it is useless.

I have tried that way out.
I won't try it again." Her lips grew stern and her eyes dark with some too bitter memory.
"I honestly don't see what Dr.Farr could do," said Spence tentatively.
"You would," said Dr.Farr's daughter with decision.
"And anyway," proceeding hastily, "that wasn't what I was thinking of.
I knew that you would refuse to go as my secretary.