"In the first place, tell me why you have left your place." "Mr.Dowling discovered," he told her, in a matter-of-fact tone, "that I had been doing some business on my own account.

He was quite right to disapprove.

I have not been back to the office since he found it out." "What sort of business ?" she asked.
"The business of the firm is to buy property in undeveloped districts and sell it for building estate," he explained.

"I have been very successful hitherto in finding sites for their operations.

A short time ago, I discovered one so good that I invested all my own savings in buying certain lots, and have an option upon the whole.