Then when you're ready for practice I may be in a position to help you.

You will have a salary of, say, twelve hundred to begin with, but you can make yourself worth more to me." Dan murmured a reply which Bassett did not heed.
"Your visit to my home and the article in the 'Courier' first suggested this to me.

It struck me that you understood me pretty well.

I read all the other sketches in that series and the different tone in which you wrote of me gave me the idea that you had tried to please me, and that you knew how to do it.

How does the proposition strike you ?" "It couldn't be otherwise than gratifying, Mr.Bassett.