"Haven't I told you that before?
What did I say when you came to me?
You were to hear nothing and see nothing outside your duties! Speak up, man! Don't stand there like a jay!" The clerk was pale, and there was an odd sensation in his throat.

But he thought of his girl-wife and he pulled himself together.
"You are quite right, sir," he said.

"To any one else I should never have mentioned it.

But we were alone, and I thought that the circumstances might make it excusable." His employer grunted in an ominous manner.
"When I say forget, I mean forget," he declared.

"I don't want to be reminded by you of my own business.