"I am sure you should not try to write.

Will you not accept me as amanuensis?
The matter is not private ?" Not at all: but--" "Then let me write from your dictation.

I have nothing at all to do for the next two hours,--I am staying in the house, you know,--and it will give me genuine pleasure to help you.

You have no business with such labour.

Dr.Gilmer, I know, must have forbidden it.