It is not all beer and skittles in a newspaper office, which is a good thing, for I don't like beer, and I don't know what skittles is or are.

But I promise you that the next time I have an interesting case on hand I shall write and give you full particulars, and I am sure that together we shall be invincible." But one trouble leaves merely to give place to another in this life.
Jennie was disturbed to notice that Mr.Hardwick was becoming more and more confidential with her.

He sat down by her desk whenever there was a reasonable excuse for doing so, and he consulted her on matters important and on matters trivial.

An advance of salary came to her, and she knew it was through his influence with the board of directors.
Although Mr.Hardwick was sharp and decisive in business matters, he proved an awkward man where his affections were concerned, and he often came and sat by the girl's desk, evidently wishing to say something, and yet quite as evidently having nothing to say; and thus the situation became embarrassing.

Jennie was a practical girl and had no desire to complicate the situation by allowing her employer to fall in love with her, yet it was impossible to go to him and ask that his attentions might be limited strictly to a business basis.