"Don't you trouble yourself about it--I'm not at all keen about him.

He's a clever enough fellow, and a good assistant, but I don't like him, personally--never did." "I don't want to think that anything that I say should lose him his situation--or whatever you call it," she remarked slowly.

"That would seem--" "No need to bother," interrupted Ransford.

"He'll get another in two minutes--so to speak.

Anyway, we can't have this going on.