As Planned                  As Delivered
       I think you will admit,         If you are not too
       sir, that the quality           busy, sir, there is one
       of my work during the           other matter--in fact,
       last two years has been         the truth of the matter
       such that my services           in fact is exactly--well,
       could not easily be replaced.   sir, I was precisely
       I speak more                    wondering whether--of
       in pain than in anger           course I know this is a
       when I say that it has          bad time--indeed I have
       been a matter of profound       been very pleased to see
       surprise to me to               business picking up a
       note that you have not          bit lately, and I am sure
       seen fit to acknowledge         my own department has
       my value to the firm in         been--but to tell you the
       some substantial way. I         truth, sir, I have been
       think I may say that            wondering--of course it
       I have been patient.            is just as you think best
       I have continued my             and I wouldn't think of
       efforts with unremitting        insisting, but after all,
       zeal, and I think I may         perhaps I have made a
       flatter myself that my          mistake in mentioning
       endeavors have not been         it, but I was thinking
       without result. I have          that possibly you might
       here, carefully tabulated,      bear in mind the idea of
       a memorandum of                 a possible future raise in
       the increased profits in        salary at some future time.
       my department during
       the last twelve months,
       due in great part to my
       careful management. I
       am sorry to have to
       force you into a decision,
       but I think I owe it to
       myself to say candidly
       that unless you see the
       matter in the same way
       that I do I shall feel
       obliged to deprive the
       firm of my services.