I knew there was something.

Yes, yes, come and be my secretary; you're just the man.' He went on to tell me he had a lot of correspondence with sellers of curiosities, and it bored him to write the letters.

Would I come for a couple of hours a day?
He'd pay me twenty pounds a month.

You may suppose I wasn't long in accepting.

We began the next day, and in a week's time we were good friends.