Would you mind letting me off fifteen minutes early after this, sir? asked the bookkeeper. "You see, I've moved into the suburbs and I can't catch my train unless I leave at a quarter before five o'clock."
I suppose I'll have to, grumbled the boss; "but you should have thought of that before you moved."
I did, confided the bookkeeper to the stenographer a little later, "and that's the reason I moved."