He accepted the responsibility at once and telephoned to his wife to pack up his things.

Two hours later he was on a train bound for San Francisco where he boarded a steamer for China.

The same gentleman told me that this trip was his second visit to China within a few months.
American salesmen are clever and capable, and well know how to recommend whatever they have to sell.

You walk into a store just to look around; there may be nothing that you want, but the adroit manner in which the salesman talks, and the way in which he explains the good points of every article at which you look, makes it extremely difficult for you to leave the store without making some purchases.

Salesmen and commercial travellers in the United States have certainly learned the art of speaking.