You would not reason and argue with these obstinate British shopkeepers.

No! Your value to me would lie in other directions--in your social position, your opportunities of meeting with a class above the commercial one in which I have made my few English friends, and in your own intelligence." "I scarcely see of what value these things would be to a vendor of crockery." "They would be of no value at all," Selingman admitted.

"It is not in the crockery business that I propose to make use of you.

I believe that we both know that.

We may dismiss it from our minds.