Safe to assist at the entertainment ‚Äî 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 ‚Äî of the firm, nothing more.
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 ‚Äî 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 ‚Äî of the firm, nothing more.  The sealing-wax, thereupon, retired from the august presence, together with the ex-clerk ; whose customary habit3 abandoned him utterly during the remainder of the day.