Maud waited patiently.
"You see," resumed the manager abruptly, "I am making more money for the Continental than I get paid for.

That is because I know how.

It is not good business to cut down the profits; therefore I should be paid a bigger salary.

Miss Stanton, you're a friend of young Jones, who controls this company.

Yon might talk to him about me." "I will," she said.
"You might say I know every trick of the trade.