Date: 1890
29 Thus re-assured, Miss Garnish announced her intention of asking Mr. Seebright to dinner, as soon as he arrived — and of requesting Mr.  Safe to assist at the entertainment — for it had never entered her head that Safe, whom she looked upon as a mere legal machine , could venture to look upon her with other eyes than those befitting a junior partner — of the firm, nothing more.  The sealing-wax, thereupon, retired from the august presence, together with the ex-clerk ; whose customary habits abandoned him utterly during the remainder of the day.