They're afraid of the roof pushing the walls out, and I'm going to see what can be done with it before we send the stuff and the workmen." "Why, Burge trusts almost everything to you now, Adam, doesn't he?
I should think he will make you his partner soon.

He will, if he's wise." "Nay, sir, I don't see as he'd be much the better off for that.

A foreman, if he's got a conscience and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner.

I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it." "I know that, Adam; I know you work for him as well as if you were working for yourself.

But you would have more power than you have now, and could turn the business to better account perhaps.