There was one thing more to be said, was there not, brother Jeremiah?
We do not wish to have this talked over in Monkshaven until shortly before the time when yo' must enter on the business.

We have our own arrangements to make wi' regard to the banking concern, and there'll be lawyer's work to do, after yo've examined books and looked over stock again together; may-be we've overstated it, or t' fixtures aren't worth so much as we said.
Anyhow yo' must each on yo' give us yo'r word for to keep fra' naming this night's conversation to any one.

Meantime, Jeremiah and I will have to pay accounts, and take a kind of farewell of the merchants and manufacturers with whom Fosters have had dealings this seventy or eighty year; and when and where it seems fitting to us we will take one of yo' to introduce as our successors and friends.

But all that's to come.

But yo' must each give us yo'r word not to name what has passed here to any one till further speech on the subject has passed between us.' Coulson immediately gave the promise.