You won't mind if I smoke, will you ?" "I never smoke in my office," said Simpkins.

"I dislike free and easy and slipshod ways of doing business." Meldon filled and lit his pipe.
"You're perfectly right," he said.

"There's nothing impresses the intelligent stranger so unfavourably as the smell of tobacco in an office when he comes into it in the hope of doing business with a competent man.

I wish you would impress your idea on that subject, and I may say a good many other subjects, on the people of this town.

They are lamentably deficient in what I may call the etiquette of commercial life; and yet all these little points count for a lot.