I'm a bit stupidlike this evenin' ...

readin' too much....

May I stay and help you, Sir?
I'm pretty quick on the typewriter, Miss Warren may have told you ...

Sir ...
and I ain't--I mean--_I am not_--half bad with me shorthand....

You know--I mean, _she_ would know I'd joined them evenin' classes..." "Thank you, Adams; but if you have joined the evening classes you oughtn't to interrupt your attendance there.