Now we are satisfied that we could not place our case in better hands, and what we are anxious to do is to induce you to interest yourself in it and take it up." "You pay me a very high compliment," I said, "but I cannot give you a decision at once.

I must hear what it is that you want me to do and have time to think it over, before I can answer you.

That is my invariable rule, and I never depart from it.

Do you know my office ?" "We know it perfectly," returned the blind man.

"It would be strange if we did not, seeing that we have stood outside it repeatedly, trying to summon up courage to enter.