My employer sent for me one morning tolerably early, and, as soon as I had finished inserting some conundrums clandestinely into his last great speech upon finance, I entered the presence.

一天早上，我的雇主相当早地派人来找我，并且，当我在他最后一次关于金融的精彩演讲中暗中插入一些难题后，我就出现了。