She neither knew nor cared anything about the resources or the politics or the programme or the prospects of the paper.

To her all newspapers were much alike.
She did not even explore, in meditation, the extraordinary psychology of Mr.Cannon--the man whose original energy and restless love of initiative was leading him to found a newspaper on the top of a successful but audaciously irregular practice as a lawyer.

She incuriously and with religious admiration accepted Mr.Cannon as she accepted the idea of the paper.

And being, of course, entirely ignorant of journalism, she was not in a position to criticize the organizing arrangements of the newspaper.

Not that these would have seemed excessively peculiar to anybody familiar with the haphazard improvisations of minor journalism in the provinces! She had indeed, in her innocence, imagined that the basic fact of a newspaper enterprise would be a printing-press; but when Mr.Dayson, who had been on _The Signal_ and on sundry country papers in Shropshire, assured her that the majority of weekly sheets were printed on jobbing presses in private hands, she corrected her foolish notion.
Her sole interest--but it was tremendous!--lay in what she herself had to do--namely, take down from dictation, transcribe, copy, classify, and keep letters and documents, and occasionally correct proofs.