"It's only his indigestion I find fault with.

But to save me I can't see any difference between writing jokes or comic verse and running a type-writer, taking dictation, or keeping sets of books.

It is all a means to an end.

Your theory is for me to begin with keeping books in order to become a successful lawyer or man of business.

Mine is to begin with hack-work and develop into an able author." "There is a difference," she insisted.
"What is it ?" "Why, your good work, what you yourself call good, you can't sell.